Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12686
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Roy McCrerey represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Roy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Roy McCrerey appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Roy. Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for music, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mona Fastvold, F. Gary Gray, Thomas Berger and others, Roy McCrerey helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik (2021) as Richard Hess · The Patriot (2000) as Redcoat · Iron Man 3 (2013) as President's Aide
Career snapshot
Ranked #12686 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2000–2025
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
The Patriot
Most frequent director
Mona Fastvold
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Mona Fastvold
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Déjà Vu, The Patriot — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Déjà Vu, The Patriot.
Most productive era
2010s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.21 film | 6.24 films | 6.62 films |
| Action | 7.12 films | 6.52 films | 6.62 films |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 6.23 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | 6.82 films |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2000The Patriot
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Redcoat. 7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Mr. Shattuck.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
12 of 12 films
as Redcoat
Directed by Roland Emmerich
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Sergeant
Directed by Unknown
as President's Aide
Directed by Shane Black
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Richard Hess
Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik (2021)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Richard Hess gives Roy McCrerey a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Redcoat
The Patriot (2000)
Performance score7.1
The Patriot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Redcoat is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self - Narrator (voice)
Adolf Island (2019)
Performance score7.0
Adolf Island asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - Narrator (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sergeant
Blood & Gold (2023)
Performance score6.9
Blood & Gold asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sergeant is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Richard Hess
Start here. Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik is the clearest statement of what Roy McCrerey does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Roy at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Patriot (2000)
A deliberate change of key after Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Keeps the action register of The Patriot but asks for a colder reading of it.
Adolf Island (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Iron Man 3 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Blood & Gold (2023)
Same director as Adolf Island, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Patriot
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Déjà Vu
Derrick Borte
Director
1 film together
Notably The Joneses
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Iron Man 3
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Money in the World
Ben Lewin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Catcher Was a Spy
Thomas Berger
Director
1 film together
Notably Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably Lift
Mona Fastvold
Director
1 film together
Notably The Testament of Ann Lee
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Thomas Berger
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Allmen und das Geheimnis der ErotikRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PatriotShane Black
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Iron Man 3Tony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Déjà VuRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the Money in the WorldMona Fastvold
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Testament of Ann LeeF. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LiftBen Lewin
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Catcher Was a SpyDerrick Borte
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JonesesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Iron Man 3
as President's Aide
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Testament of Ann Lee
as Mr. Shattuck
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Patriot
as Redcoat
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Déjà Vu
as National Guardsman at Disaster
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik
as Richard Hess
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Roy McCrerey has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik
as Richard Hess
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Déjà Vu
as National Guardsman at Disaster
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Testament of Ann Lee
as Mr. Shattuck
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
as Iverson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Iron Man 3
as President's Aide
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Iron Man 3
as President's Aide
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Patriot
as Redcoat
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Testament of Ann Lee
as Mr. Shattuck
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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