Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19152
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Todd Allen represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 42 years in, and Todd is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Todd Allen appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Todd. Django Unchained is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for western, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Costner, Angelo Pizzo, Quentin Tarantino and others, Todd Allen 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.
Django Unchained (2012) as Dollar Bill · Mask (1985) as Canuck · My All American (2015) as Father Bomar
Career snapshot
Ranked #19152 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1982–2024
Career length
42 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Django Unchained
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Django Unchained
Most frequent director
Kevin Costner
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kevin Costner
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
2h 23m
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
6.9
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
7.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. My All American, Django Unchained — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Silverado, Mask, 48 Hrs..
Most productive era
1980s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | 6.52 films | 5.81 film | 7.72 films | 6.81 film |
| Action | 6.82 films | 6.31 film | 5.81 film | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.81 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | — | — | — | — |
| Crime | 6.71 film | — | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
198248 Hrs.
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Cop.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2012Django Unchained
8.4 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
2024Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
The current state of the argument, as Buckhout.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Dollar Bill
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Father Bomar
Directed by Angelo Pizzo
as Deputy Kern
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
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
Dollar Bill
Django Unchained (2012)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dollar Bill gives Todd Allen a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Canuck
Mask (1985)
Performance score7.2
Mask asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Canuck is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Father Bomar
My All American (2015)
Performance score7.1
My All American asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father Bomar is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Buckhout
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
Performance score6.7
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Buckhout 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 Dollar Bill
Start here. Django Unchained is the clearest statement of what Todd Allen does — accessible, 165 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Todd 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.
Mask (1985)
Keeps the drama register of Django Unchained but asks for a colder reading of it.
Silverado (1985)
Keeps the drama register of Mask but asks for a colder reading of it.
My All American (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Silverado but asks for a colder reading of it.
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
Keeps the drama register of My All American but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Lawrence Kasdan
Director
2 films together
Notably Silverado
Kevin Costner
Director
2 films together
Notably Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably 48 Hrs.
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together
Notably Mask
Robert Duvall
Director
1 film together
Notably The Apostle
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably Collateral Damage
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Django Unchained
Angelo Pizzo
Director
1 film together
Notably My All American
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Lawrence Kasdan
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SilveradoKevin Costner
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Django UnchainedPeter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaskAngelo Pizzo
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My All AmericanWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
48 Hrs.Robert Duvall
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ApostleAndrew Davis
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Collateral DamageSix 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
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mask
as Canuck
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
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. Todd Allen 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
42 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
8 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
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mask
as Canuck
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Postman
as Gibbs
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Django Unchained
as Dollar Bill
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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