Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3786
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ted Whittall 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.
Ted Whittall appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ted. Charlie St. Cloud is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 horror, romance, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bradley Walsh, Ramin Bahrani, David Ayer and others, Ted Whittall 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.
Charlie St. Cloud (2010) as Principal · Wicker Park (2004) as Walter · The Bone Collector (1999) as Ortiz's Assistant
Career snapshot
Ranked #3786 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1999–2023
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Charlie St. Cloud
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Charlie St. Cloud
Most frequent director
Bradley Walsh
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Bradley Walsh
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.4
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Bone Collector — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Bone Collector.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 6.52 films | 6.32 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.31 film | 5.91 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.81 film | 6.52 films | 5.51 film | — |
| Crime | 6.81 film | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.81 film | 7.01 film | 6.51 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ortiz's Assistant.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.0 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 Hospital Visitor.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Jeremy 'Jud' Judson
Directed by Bradley Walsh
as Walter
Directed by Paul McGuigan
as Ortiz's Assistant
Directed by Phillip Noyce
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
Principal
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Principal gives Ted Whittall a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jeremy 'Jud' Judson
Country at Heart (2020)
Performance score6.7
Country at Heart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jeremy 'Jud' Judson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Walter
Wicker Park (2004)
Performance score6.7
Wicker Park asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Walter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ortiz's Assistant
The Bone Collector (1999)
Performance score6.7
The Bone Collector asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ortiz's Assistant 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 Principal
Start here. Charlie St. Cloud is the clearest statement of what Ted Whittall does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ted 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 Bone Collector (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Charlie St. Cloud but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wicker Park (2004)
Keeps the mystery register of The Bone Collector but asks for a colder reading of it.
Country at Heart (2020)
Keeps the romance register of Wicker Park but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Country at Heart — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bone Collector
David Mamet
Director
1 film together
Notably Heist
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Wicker Park
Burr Steers
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie St. Cloud
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Suicide Squad
Ramin Bahrani
Director
1 film together
Notably Fahrenheit 451
Bradley Walsh
Director
1 film together
Notably Country at Heart
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Burr Steers
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie St. CloudPaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wicker ParkPhillip Noyce
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bone CollectorBradley Walsh
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Country at HeartDavid Mamet
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeistDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Suicide SquadRamin Bahrani
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fahrenheit 451Six 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
The Bone Collector
as Ortiz's Assistant
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Charlie St. Cloud
as Principal
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Charlie St. Cloud
as Principal
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fahrenheit 451
as Major Ron Curtis
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Charlie St. Cloud
as Principal
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. Ted Whittall 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
24 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
5 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
The Bone Collector
as Ortiz's Assistant
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Bone Collector
as Ortiz's Assistant
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Charlie St. Cloud
as Principal
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Bone Collector
as Ortiz's Assistant
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Heist
as Customs Officer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Suicide Squad
as Admiral Olsen
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Charlie St. Cloud
as Principal
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Country at Heart
as Jeremy 'Jud' Judson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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