Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3938
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Corey Feldman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 44 years in, and Corey is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Corey Feldman appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Corey. Stand by Me is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 music, documentary, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Soleil Moon Frye, Lloyd Kaufman, Richard Donner and others, Corey Feldman 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.
Stand by Me (1986) as Teddy Duchamp · The Goonies (1985) as Mouth · Gremlins (1984) as Pete Fountaine
Career snapshot
Ranked #3938 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1981–2025
Career length
44 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Stand by Me
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Stand by Me
Most frequent director
Richard Donner
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Richard Donner
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
1980s
7.2 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. The 'Burbs, The Lost Boys, Stand by Me — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.2
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The 'Burbs, The Lost Boys, Stand by Me.
Most productive era
1980s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.62 films | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.82 films | 6.11 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.92 films | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.24 films | 6.82 films | 6.11 film | 4.92 films |
| Horror | 6.84 films | — | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Copper (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1986Stand by Me
7.9 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
2025Sour Party
The current state of the argument, as Leslie.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Teddy Duchamp
Directed by Rob Reiner
as Mouth
Directed by Richard Donner
as Donatello (voice)
Directed by Steve Barron
as Young Copper (voice)
Directed by Richard Rich
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
Teddy Duchamp
Stand by Me (1986)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Teddy Duchamp gives Corey Feldman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mouth
The Goonies (1985)
Performance score7.7
The Goonies asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mouth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pete Fountaine
Gremlins (1984)
Performance score7.3
Gremlins asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pete Fountaine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Donatello (voice)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Performance score7.1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Donatello (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 Teddy Duchamp
Start here. Stand by Me is the clearest statement of what Corey Feldman does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Corey 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 Fox and the Hound (1981)
Keeps the adventure register of Stand by Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gremlins (1984)
A deliberate change of key after The Fox and the Hound — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Goonies (1985)
Keeps the comedy register of Gremlins but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Keeps the comedy register of The Goonies but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joe Dante
Director
2 films together
Notably Gremlins
Richard Donner
Director
2 films together
Notably The Goonies
Richard Rich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fox and the Hound
Joseph Zito
Director
1 film together
Notably Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand by Me
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost Boys
Steve Barron
Director
1 film together
Notably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Lloyd Kaufman
Director
1 film together
Notably Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
Soleil Moon Frye
Director
1 film together
Notably kid 90
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Richard Donner
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The GooniesJoe Dante
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
GremlinsRob Reiner
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand by MeRichard Rich
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fox and the HoundJoel Schumacher
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 Lost BoysSoleil Moon Frye
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
kid 90Steve Barron
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesJoseph Zito
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Friday the 13th: The Final ChapterLloyd Kaufman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IVSix 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 Goonies
as Mouth
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 Fox and the Hound
as Young Copper (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
Stand by Me
as Teddy Duchamp
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Maverick
as Bank Robber
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Stand by Me
as Teddy Duchamp
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. Corey Feldman 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
44 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
9 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
Stand by Me
as Teddy Duchamp
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Lost Boys
as Edgar Frog
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Fox and the Hound
as Young Copper (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible
as Self
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stand by Me
as Teddy Duchamp
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Maverick
as Bank Robber
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Fox and the Hound
as Young Copper (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
as Tommy Jarvis
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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