Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#32557
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Timothy Scott represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Timothy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Timothy Scott appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Timothy. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 war, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ronald F. Maxwell, Richard Attenborough, Herbert Ross and others, Timothy Scott 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.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as News Carver · In the Heat of the Night (1967) as Shagbag · Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) as (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #32557 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1967–1993
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
In the Heat of the Night
Most frequent director
Ronald F. Maxwell
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ronald F. Maxwell
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
2h 3m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
1960s
7.3 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Party, In the Heat of the Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Party, In the Heat of the Night.
Most productive era
1960s
4 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 | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.32 films | 6.83 films | 6.53 films | 6.81 film |
| Action | — | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.21 film | 6.61 film | — |
| Crime | 7.41 film | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Romance | 7.31 film | 6.72 films | 6.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Shagbag.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7.5 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
1993Gettysburg
The current state of the argument, as Lieut. Gen. Richard S. Ewell.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Shagbag
Directed by Norman Jewison
as Harvest Hand
Directed by Terrence Malick
as Gore Pontoon
Directed by Blake Edwards
From the library
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The defining work
#1
News Carver
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. News Carver gives Timothy Scott a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shagbag
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Performance score7.2
In the Heat of the Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shagbag is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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(uncredited)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Performance score7.2
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harvest Hand
Days of Heaven (1978)
Performance score7.1
Days of Heaven asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harvest Hand 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 News Carver
Start here. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the clearest statement of what Timothy Scott does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Timothy 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.
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A deliberate change of key after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Keeps the drama register of In the Heat of the Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Party (1968)
A deliberate change of key after Guess Who's Coming to Dinner — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Days of Heaven (1978)
A deliberate change of key after The Party — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stanley Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Norman Jewison
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Heat of the Night
Blake Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably The Party
George Roy Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Richard C. Sarafian
Director
1 film together
Notably Vanishing Point
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably Days of Heaven
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Electric Horseman
John Huston
Director
1 film together
Notably Annie
Herbert Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Footloose
Richard Attenborough
Director
1 film together
Notably A Chorus Line
Ronald F. Maxwell
Director
1 film together
Notably Gettysburg
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Roy Hill
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidNorman Jewison
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Heat of the NightStanley Kramer
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Guess Who's Coming to DinnerTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Days of HeavenBlake Edwards
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PartyRichard C. Sarafian
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vanishing PointRonald F. Maxwell
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GettysburgHerbert Ross
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FootlooseJohn Huston
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnieRichard Attenborough
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Chorus LineSydney Pollack
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 Electric HorsemanSix 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
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as News Carver
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as News Carver
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Annie
as Staff Member (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as News Carver
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. Timothy Scott 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
26 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 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
In the Heat of the Night
as Shagbag
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
In the Heat of the Night
as Shagbag
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Chorus Line
as Boy with Headband
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
In the Heat of the Night
as Shagbag
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as News Carver
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Vanishing Point
as Angel
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Electric Horseman
as Leroy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Electric Horseman
as Leroy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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