Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3137
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Roger Corman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 65 years in, and Roger is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Roger Corman appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Roger. The Silence of the Lambs is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 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 documentary, comedy, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Camille Juza, Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante and others, Roger Corman 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.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as FBI Director Hayden Burke · The Godfather Part II (1974) as Senator #2 · The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as FBI Director Hayden Burke
Career snapshot
Ranked #3137 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1959–2024
Career length
65 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
The Silence of the Lambs
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.6
The Silence of the Lambs
Most frequent director
Jonathan Demme
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Jonathan Demme
Most common genre
Documentary
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
7.5
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
1970s
8.8 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. The Godfather Part II — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
8.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
8.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1950s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Wasp Woman.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 1950s | 1970s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 8.81 film | 7.93 films | 6.42 films | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 8.82 films | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.21 film | 6.41 film | — | 6.81 film |
| Crime | — | 8.81 film | 8.82 films | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | — | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Horror | 5.41 film | — | 7.72 films | 6.01 film | 4.11 film | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1959The Wasp Woman
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hospital Doctor (uncredited).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 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
2024Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
The current state of the argument, as Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer.
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
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
Directed by Jonathan Demme
as Senator #2
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
Directed by Jonathan Demme
as Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer
Directed by Camille Juza
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 41 titles · 55 total credits · active 1959–2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
2024 · Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer
DinoGator
2024 · Executive Producer
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
2024 · TV · Himself
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021 · Self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021 · Self
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020 · Self
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Self
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020 · Self
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
2019 · Self
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019 · Self
Sharktopus
2010 · Beach Bum · Producer
Death Race 2
2010 · Executive Producer
Rachel Getting Married
2008 · Wedding Guest
Death Race
2008 · Producer
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · Mr. Secretary
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003 · Hollywood Director
Scream 3
2000 · Studio Executive
Apollo 13
1995 · Congressman
Philadelphia
1993 · Mr. Laird
Body Bags
1993 · Dr. Bregman
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · FBI Director Hayden Burke
Rock 'n' Roll High School
1979 · Executive Producer
Piranha
1978 · Executive Producer
Death Race 2000
1975 · Executive Producer
The defining work
#1
FBI Director Hayden Burke
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. FBI Director Hayden Burke gives Roger Corman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Senator #2
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Performance score8.4
The Godfather Part II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Senator #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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FBI Director Hayden Burke
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Performance score8.2
The Silence of the Lambs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. FBI Director Hayden Burke is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master (2024)
Performance score7.8
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer 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 FBI Director Hayden Burke
Start here. The Silence of the Lambs is the clearest statement of what Roger Corman does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Roger 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 Godfather Part II (1974)
Keeps the crime register of The Silence of the Lambs but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Keeps the crime register of The Godfather Part II but asks for a colder reading of it.
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Silence of the Lambs — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master (2024)
Keeps the documentary register of Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jonathan Demme
Director
5 films together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Roger Corman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wasp Woman
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably The Godfather Part II
Tobe Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Body Bags
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Apollo 13
Wes Craven
Director
1 film together
Notably Scream 3
Joe Dante
Director
1 film together
Notably Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Camille Juza
Director
1 film together
Notably Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Jodie Foster
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Scott Glenn
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Ted Levine
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Heald
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Brooke Smith
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Diane Baker
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Kasi Lemmons
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Frankie Faison
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Tracey Walter
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Charles Napier
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Danny Darst
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jonathan Demme
Director
5 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Silence of the LambsFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 8.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Godfather Part IICamille Juza
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American MasterRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Apollo 13Joe Dante
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Looney Tunes: Back in ActionTobe Hooper
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Body BagsWes Craven
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scream 3Roger Corman
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wasp WomanSix 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 Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Apollo 13
as Congressman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Godfather Part II
as Senator #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
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. Roger Corman has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 8.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #351 of 681 | #9 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Thriller, Crime, Horror | Animation, Family, Comedy, Drama |
| Directors | Jonathan Demme | Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Villain presence, Screen presence | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1991–1991 | 1999–2026 |
| Most iconic role | FBI Director Hayden Burke — The Silence of the Lambs | Paul Edgecomb — The Green Mile |
| Most rewatchable film | The Silence of the Lambs | The Green Mile |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Crime Movies
Tom Hanks edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
65 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.
Documentary Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in documentary, 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 Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rachel Getting Married
as Wedding Guest
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Manchurian Candidate
as Mr. Secretary
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Apollo 13
as Congressman
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wasp Woman
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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