Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3910
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Cam Clarke represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Cam is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Cam Clarke appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Cam. Big Hero 6 is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Peter Hastings, Matt Peters, Chris Williams and others, Cam Clarke 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.
Big Hero 6 (2014) as Additional Voice (voice) · Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (2006) as Additional Voices (voice) · Dog Man (2025) as Indifferent Shop (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3910 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1998–2025
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Big Hero 6
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
Most frequent director
Peter Hastings
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Peter Hastings
Most common genre
Family
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.6
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
2020s
7.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Dog Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | — | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.73 films | 6.93 films | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.54 films | 7.23 films | 7.41 film |
| Romance | 7.01 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.61 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Simba (singing voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2006Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
8.0 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
2025Dog Man
The current state of the argument, as Indifferent Shop (voice).
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.
11 of 11 films
as Additional Voice (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Tom Warburton
as Indifferent Shop (voice)
Directed by Peter Hastings
as Money Lender (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
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
Additional Voice (voice)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voice (voice) gives Cam Clarke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (2006)
Performance score7.8
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Indifferent Shop (voice)
Dog Man (2025)
Performance score7.2
Dog Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Indifferent Shop (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Money Lender (voice)
Tales of the Black Freighter (2009)
Performance score7.0
Tales of the Black Freighter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Money Lender (voice) 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 Additional Voice (voice)
Start here. Big Hero 6 is the clearest statement of what Cam Clarke does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Cam 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.
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (2006)
Keeps the action register of Big Hero 6 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tales of the Black Freighter (2009)
Keeps the action register of Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Keeps the animation register of Tales of the Black Freighter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dog Man (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Hotel Transylvania but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Darrell Rooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Tom Warburton
Director
1 film together
Notably Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
Steve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together
Notably Barnyard
Len Wiseman
Director
1 film together
Notably Total Recall
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Hero 6
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters
Peter Hastings
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Man
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Hero 6Tom Warburton
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.Peter Hastings
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog ManGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel TransylvaniaDarrell Rooney
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 Lion King II: Simba's PrideMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO DC Batman: Family MattersLen Wiseman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Total RecallSteve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarnyardSix 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
Big Hero 6
as Additional Voice (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 Lion King II: Simba's Pride
as Simba (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
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Underdog
as Little Brown Dog / Supershep 3 (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big Hero 6
as Additional Voice (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. Cam Clarke 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
27 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in family, 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
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
as Simba (singing voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Big Hero 6
as Additional Voice (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dog Man
as Indifferent Shop (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
as Simba (singing voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Big Hero 6
as Additional Voice (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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