Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5232
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Brad Kane represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Brad is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Brad Kane appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Brad. Aladdin is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, physical performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ben Young, Paul Verhoeven, Tad Stones and others, Brad Kane 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.
Aladdin (1992) as Aladdin (singing voice) · Starship Troopers (1997) as Lanny · Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) as Aladdin (singing voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5232 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1992–2018
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Aladdin
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Aladdin
Most frequent director
Ben Young
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ben Young
Most common genre
Adventure
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.6
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
1990s
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Starship Troopers, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, The Return of Jafar — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Starship Troopers, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, The Return of Jafar.
Most productive era
1990s
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 | 1990s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.11 film |
| Action | 7.21 film | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | 7.21 film | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 7.12 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1992Aladdin
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Aladdin (singing voice). 7.8 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
2018Extinction
The current state of the argument, as Male Commentator.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Aladdin (singing voice)
Directed by John Musker
as Lanny
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
as Aladdin (singing voice)
Directed by Tad Stones
as Male Commentator
Directed by Ben Young
as Aladdin (singing voice)
Directed by Toby Shelton
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
Aladdin (singing voice)
Aladdin (1992)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Aladdin (singing voice) gives Brad Kane a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lanny
Starship Troopers (1997)
Performance score7.1
Starship Troopers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lanny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Aladdin (singing voice)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
Performance score6.9
Aladdin and the King of Thieves asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aladdin (singing voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Male Commentator
Extinction (2018)
Performance score6.5
Extinction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Male Commentator 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 Aladdin (singing voice)
Start here. Aladdin is the clearest statement of what Brad Kane does — accessible, 91 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Brad 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 Return of Jafar (1994)
Keeps the romance register of Aladdin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
Keeps the adventure register of The Return of Jafar but asks for a colder reading of it.
Starship Troopers (1997)
Keeps the adventure register of Aladdin and the King of Thieves but asks for a colder reading of it.
Extinction (2018)
Keeps the action register of Starship Troopers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Musker
Director
1 film together
Notably Aladdin
Toby Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Return of Jafar
Tad Stones
Director
1 film together
Notably Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Paul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together
Notably Starship Troopers
Ben Young
Director
1 film together
Notably Extinction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Musker
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AladdinPaul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Starship TroopersTad Stones
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aladdin and the King of ThievesToby Shelton
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 Return of JafarBen Young
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExtinctionSix 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
Aladdin
as Aladdin (singing 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
Aladdin
as Aladdin (singing voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Aladdin
as Aladdin (singing voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Starship Troopers
as Lanny
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Aladdin
as Aladdin (singing voice)
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. Brad Kane 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Aladdin
as Aladdin (singing voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Starship Troopers
as Lanny
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Return of Jafar
as Aladdin (singing voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Aladdin
as Aladdin (singing voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Starship Troopers
as Lanny
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Starship Troopers
as Lanny
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Aladdin
as Aladdin (singing voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Return of Jafar
as Aladdin (singing voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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