Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1593
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Timothy V. Murphy 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.
Timothy V. Murphy appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Timothy. Appaloosa is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 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 comedy, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jared Cohn, Jesse V. Johnson, Jocelyn Moorhouse and others, Timothy V. Murphy 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.
Appaloosa (2008) as Vince · Guns Up (2025) as Lonny Costigan · Hell Hath No Fury (2021) as Jerry
Career snapshot
Ranked #1593 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Appaloosa
Average Nutevio score
4.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
Appaloosa
Most frequent director
Jesse V. Johnson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jesse V. Johnson
Most common genre
Action
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Appaloosa, National Treasure: Book of Secrets — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Appaloosa, National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | 6.61 film | — | 2.03 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | 6.11 film | 4.69 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 4.08 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.01 film | 6.23 films |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — | 3.55 films |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | 4.36 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Seth.
Highest rated performance
2008Appaloosa
6.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Guns Up
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Above & Below
The current state of the argument.
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.
20 of 20 films
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
Lonny Costigan
Guns Up (2025)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lonny Costigan gives Timothy V. Murphy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jerry
Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
Performance score6.6
Hell Hath No Fury asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jerry is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vince
Appaloosa (2008)
Performance score6.6
Appaloosa asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vince is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eric
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026)
Performance score6.5
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eric 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 Lonny Costigan
Start here. Guns Up is the clearest statement of what Timothy V. Murphy does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 6.5 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.
Appaloosa (2008)
Keeps the crime register of Guns Up but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Appaloosa — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Hell Hath No Fury — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Unwinding (2026)
Same director as Vampires of the Velvet Lounge, 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.
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
2 films together
Notably Hell Hath No Fury
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Ed Harris
Director
1 film together
Notably Appaloosa
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lone Ranger
Nathan Sutton
Director
1 film together
Notably New Year
Egor Baranov
Director
1 film together
Notably Resurrected
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fabulous Four
Jared Cohn
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Hunt
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
2 films together · 3.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hell Hath No FuryEd Harris
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AppaloosaJon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
National Treasure: Book of SecretsEgor Baranov
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ResurrectedGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lone RangerJocelyn Moorhouse
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 Fabulous FourJared Cohn
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the HuntNathan Sutton
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New YearSix 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
Appaloosa
as Vince
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 Fabulous Four
as Captain Ernie
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Appaloosa
as Vince
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Lone Ranger
as Fritz
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Guns Up
as Lonny Costigan
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 V. Murphy 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in action, 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
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Seth
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Seth
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stay in the car
as Mike
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Seth
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Seth
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
American Siege
as Charles Rutledge
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Appaloosa
as Vince
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Breach
as Stanley
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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