Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1814
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Clint Howard represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 60 years in, and Clint is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Clint Howard appears in 44 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Clint. Apollo 13 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 western, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Casper Kelly, Tyler Spindel, Rob Zombie and others, Clint Howard 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.
Apollo 13 (1995) as Sy Liebergot - EECOM White · Cinderella Man (2005) as Referee · The Jungle Book (1967) as Junior (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1814 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
44
1966–2026
Career length
60 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Apollo 13
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Most frequent director
Ron Howard
16 films together
Longest collaboration
16×
With Ron Howard
Most common genre
Comedy
24 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.8
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
1960s
7.0 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.
Most productive era
1990s
11 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 | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 6.53 films | 6.95 films | 7.13 films | 5.62 films | 5.81 film |
| Action | — | — | 6.61 film | 6.71 film | 6.31 film | 6.13 films | 5.81 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.61 film | 6.42 films | 6.31 film | 5.82 films | 5.31 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.41 film | 6.46 films | 6.46 films | 6.28 films | 5.52 films | 3.51 film |
| Crime | — | — | 6.61 film | 6.44 films | 6.12 films | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.41 film | 6.71 film | 7.41 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | — | — | 5.22 films | 4.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1966Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Roo (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995Apollo 13
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
2026Buddy
The current state of the argument, as George (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.
44 of 44 films
as Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
Directed by Ron Howard
as Lloyd Davis
Directed by Ron Howard
as Referee
Directed by Ron Howard
as Junior (voice)
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
as Roo (Honey Tree and Blustery Day) (voice)
Directed by John Lounsbery
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
Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
Apollo 13 (1995)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sy Liebergot - EECOM White gives Clint Howard a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lloyd Davis
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Performance score7.2
Frost/Nixon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lloyd Davis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Referee
Cinderella Man (2005)
Performance score7.2
Cinderella Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Referee is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Junior (voice)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Performance score7.2
The Jungle Book asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Junior (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 Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
Start here. Apollo 13 is the clearest statement of what Clint Howard does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Clint 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 Jungle Book (1967)
A deliberate change of key after Apollo 13 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
Keeps the adventure register of The Jungle Book but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cinderella Man (2005)
A deliberate change of key after The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Same director as Cinderella Man, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ron Howard
Director
16 films together
Notably Apollo 13
Wolfgang Reitherman
Director
3 films together
Notably The Jungle Book
Jay Roach
Director
3 films together
Notably Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
John Lounsbery
Director
1 film together
Notably The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Allan Arkush
Director
1 film together
Notably Rock 'n' Roll High School
Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Tango & Cash
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rocketeer
Tom Hanks
Director
1 film together
Notably That Thing You Do!
Robert Benton
Director
1 film together
Notably Twilight
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Waterboy
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Nicky
Bo Welch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat in the Hat
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably Fun with Dick and Jane
Matthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious George
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Uwe Boll
Director
1 film together
Notably Assault on Wall Street
Ron Oliver
Director
1 film together
Notably Grand-Daddy Day Care
Rob Zombie
Director
1 film together
Notably 3 from Hell
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably Deported
Casper Kelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Buddy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ron Howard
Director
16 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 16 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Apollo 13Wolfgang Reitherman
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Jungle BookJay Roach
Director
3 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Austin Powers: International Man of MysteryJohn Lounsbery
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Many Adventures of Winnie the PoohTom Hanks
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Thing You Do!Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tango & CashMatthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious GeorgeJoe Johnston
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The RocketeerAllan Arkush
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rock 'n' Roll High SchoolShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the Museum: Battle of the SmithsonianDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fun with Dick and JaneFrank Coraci
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WaterboyRobert Benton
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwilightUwe Boll
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assault on Wall StreetRob Zombie
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
3 from HellRon Oliver
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grand-Daddy Day CareSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little NickyBo Welch
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 Cat in the HatTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 3.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DeportedCasper Kelly
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BuddySix 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
Apollo 13
as Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
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 Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
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 Jungle Book
as Junior (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fun with Dick and Jane
as INS Agent
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Apollo 13
as Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
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. Clint Howard 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
60 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
24 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
Apollo 13
as Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Backdraft
as Ricco, Pathologist
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Frost/Nixon
as Lloyd Davis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Cocoon
as John Dexter
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Jungle Book
as Junior (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Old Way
as Eustice
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
That Thing You Do!
as KJZZ Disk Jockey
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Splash
as Wedding Guest
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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