Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#951
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bill Burr 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.
Bill Burr appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bill. Bill Burr: Paper Tiger 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 documentary, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aaron Sorkin, Jerry Seinfeld, David Wachtenheim and others, Bill Burr 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.
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger (2019) as Self · Leo (2023) as Squirtle (voice) · Dog (2022) as Police Officer (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #951 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger
Most frequent director
Mike Binder
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Mike Binder
Most common genre
Comedy
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Bill Burr: Paper Tiger, The Front Runner, Daddy's Home 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bill Burr: Paper Tiger, The Front Runner, Daddy's Home 2.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.32 films | 5.24 films |
| Action | 6.23 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 6.12 films |
| Comedy | 6.47 films | 6.210 films |
| Crime | 6.32 films | 5.71 film |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Date Night
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Detective Walsh.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
The current state of the argument, as Charlie.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Squirtle (voice)
Directed by David Wachtenheim
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
Self
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger (2019)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Bill Burr a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years (2025)
Performance score7.8
Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Squirtle (voice)
Leo (2023)
Performance score7.7
Leo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Squirtle (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Self
Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy (2021)
Performance score7.5
Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Self
Start here. Bill Burr: Paper Tiger is the clearest statement of what Bill Burr does — accessible, 67 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bill 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 King of Staten Island (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Bill Burr: Paper Tiger but asks for a colder reading of it.
Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The King of Staten Island but asks for a colder reading of it.
Leo (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Leo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mike Binder
Director
2 films together
Notably Bill Burr: Paper Tiger
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Date Night
Fisher Stevens
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand Up Guys
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Heat
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Walk of Shame
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Front Runner
Steve Byrne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Opening Act
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably The King of Staten Island
Michael Bonfiglio
Director
1 film together
Notably Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably The Guilty
Channing Tatum
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog
Bill Burr
Director
1 film together
Notably Old Dads
David Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Leo
Jerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Unfrosted
Aaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Social Reckoning
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mike Binder
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Bill Burr: Paper TigerDavid Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeoChanning Tatum
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DogMichael Bonfiglio
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is EasyJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The King of Staten IslandPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HeatAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GuiltyBill Burr
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Old DadsShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date NightSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walk of ShameFisher Stevens
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand Up GuysJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Front RunnerJerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnfrostedSteve Byrne
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Opening ActAaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Social ReckoningSix 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
Leo
as Squirtle (voice)
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 Front Runner
as Pete Murphy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Unfrosted
as JFK
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger
as Self
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. Bill Burr 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
17 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Heat
as Mark Mullins
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Front Runner
as Pete Murphy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Drugstore June
as Dr. Weisman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Heat
as Mark Mullins
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Date Night
as Detective Walsh
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The King of Staten Island
as Ray Bishop
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Leo
as Squirtle (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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