Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11082
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Stafford Douglas works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Stafford Douglas appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Stafford. Spare Parts 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 mystery, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Greengrass, Vincent D'Onofrio, Stefano Sollima and others, Stafford Douglas 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.
Spare Parts (2015) as MIT Boy · Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) as Naval Intelligence Officer · The Space Between Us (2017) as Entitled Teen
Career snapshot
Ranked #11082 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Spare Parts
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Spare Parts
Most frequent director
Paul Greengrass
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Paul Greengrass
Most common genre
Drama
10 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
6.8
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
6.2
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Kid, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Ideal Home — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Kid, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Ideal Home.
Most productive era
2010s
12 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.69 films | 6.91 film |
| Action | 5.94 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.53 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 7.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ping Pong Kid's Friend.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015Spare Parts
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
2026Buffalo Buffalo Turquoise Buffalo
The current state of the argument, as Ford.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Naval Intelligence Officer
Directed by Stefano Sollima
as Entitled Teen
Directed by Unknown
as Corporal Molinor
Directed by Scott Cooper
as Ping Pong Kid's Friend
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
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
MIT Boy
Spare Parts (2015)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. MIT Boy gives Stafford Douglas a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Naval Intelligence Officer
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
Performance score6.9
Sicario: Day of the Soldado asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Naval Intelligence Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Entitled Teen
The Space Between Us (2017)
Performance score6.9
The Space Between Us asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Entitled Teen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Corporal Molinor
Hostiles (2017)
Performance score6.9
Hostiles asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Corporal Molinor 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 MIT Boy
Start here. Spare Parts is the clearest statement of what Stafford Douglas does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Stafford 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.
This Must Be the Place (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Spare Parts but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Space Between Us (2017)
Keeps the drama register of This Must Be the Place but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hostiles (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Space Between Us but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Hostiles — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Paolo Sorrentino
Director
1 film together
Notably This Must Be the Place
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Kill
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably Spare Parts
Roel Reiné
Director
1 film together
Notably The Condemned 2
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Independence Day: Resurgence
Glenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together
Notably Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Hostiles
Andrew Fleming
Director
1 film together
Notably Ideal Home
Stefano Sollima
Director
1 film together
Notably Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Vincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably News of the World
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spare PartsStefano Sollima
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sicario: Day of the SoldadoScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HostilesPaolo Sorrentino
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Must Be the PlacePaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
News of the WorldStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoldAndrew Fleming
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ideal HomeGlenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whiskey Tango FoxtrotVincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KidAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good KillRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Independence Day: ResurgenceRoel Reiné
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Condemned 2Six 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
Spare Parts
as MIT Boy
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 Space Between Us
as Entitled Teen
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spare Parts
as MIT Boy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Naval Intelligence Officer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spare Parts
as MIT Boy
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. Stafford Douglas 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.
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
10 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
Spare Parts
as MIT Boy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Naval Intelligence Officer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Space Between Us
as Entitled Teen
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Buffalo Buffalo Turquoise Buffalo
as Ford
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hostiles
as Corporal Molinor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Kid
as John Poe
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
as Sgt. Gundacker
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Naval Intelligence Officer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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