Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1575
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Colin Ford 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.
Colin Ford appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Colin. The Hill is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tosca Musk, Jeff Celentano, Tim Hill and others, Colin Ford 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 Hill (2023) as Rickey Hill · Every Day (2018) as Xavier / A · Disconnect (2013) as Jason Dixon
Career snapshot
Ranked #1575 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2002–2024
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
The Hill
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
The Hill
Most frequent director
Tosca Musk
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tosca Musk
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.3
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Wallbanger, The Hill, The War with Grandpa — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bride Wars, Push, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.73 films | 7.61 film |
| Action | 6.21 film | 6.82 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 7.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.13 films | 6.63 films | 6.52 films |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.72 films | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Clinton Jr. (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023The Hill
7.6 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
2024Wallbanger
The current state of the argument, as Ryan.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Rickey Hill
Directed by Jeff Celentano
as Xavier / A
Directed by Michael Sucsy
as Jason Dixon
Directed by Unknown
as Dylan Mee
Directed by Cameron Crowe
as Ryan
Directed by Tosca Musk
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
Rickey Hill
The Hill (2023)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rickey Hill gives Colin Ford a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Xavier / A
Every Day (2018)
Performance score7.1
Every Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Xavier / A is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jason Dixon
Disconnect (2013)
Performance score7.0
Disconnect asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jason Dixon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dylan Mee
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Performance score7.0
We Bought a Zoo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dylan Mee 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 Rickey Hill
Start here. The Hill is the clearest statement of what Colin Ford does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Colin 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.
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Keeps the drama register of The Hill but asks for a colder reading of it.
Disconnect (2013)
Keeps the drama register of We Bought a Zoo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Every Day (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Disconnect — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Wallbanger (2024)
Keeps the romance register of Every Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andy Tennant
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Home Alabama
John A. Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ant Bully
Uwe Boll
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Push
Peter Shin
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Cameron Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably We Bought a Zoo
Michael Sucsy
Director
1 film together
Notably Every Day
Logan Polish
Director
1 film together
Notably Margot
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Marvel
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The War with Grandpa
Jeff Celentano
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hill
Tosca Musk
Director
1 film together
Notably Wallbanger
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Celentano
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HillMichael Sucsy
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Every DayRyan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain MarvelCameron Crowe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Bought a ZooPeter Shin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!Tosca Musk
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WallbangerTim Hill
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 War with GrandpaAndy Tennant
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet Home AlabamaPaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PushJohn A. Davis
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ant BullyUwe Boll
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege TaleLogan Polish
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MargotSix 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 Hill
as Rickey Hill
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 Hill
as Rickey Hill
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 Hill
as Rickey Hill
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Sweet Home Alabama
as Clinton Jr. (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Hill
as Rickey Hill
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. Colin Ford 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
22 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
8 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
The Hill
as Rickey Hill
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Disconnect
as Jason Dixon
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Hill
as Rickey Hill
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
as Zeph
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Captain Marvel
as Steve Danvers
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Captain Marvel
as Steve Danvers
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Ant Bully
as Red Teammate #4 (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Wallbanger
as Ryan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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