Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9856
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Humphrey Bogart represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 94 years in, and Humphrey is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Humphrey Bogart appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Humphrey. Rat Pack is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 documentary, mystery, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Carl Reiner, Michael Curtiz, William Wyler and others, Humphrey Bogart 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.
Rat Pack (2022) as Self (archive footage) · Casablanca (1943) as Rick Blaine · The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) as Fred C. Dobbs
Career snapshot
Ranked #9856 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
1932–2026
Career length
94 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Rat Pack
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Rat Pack
Most frequent director
John Huston
6 films together
Longest collaboration
6×
With John Huston
Most common genre
Crime
15 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
7.3
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
1940s
7.0 average MV
The 1940s are where the work and the material meet. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, Dark Passage — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1940s
7.0
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1940s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1930s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Roaring Twenties, The Return of Doctor X, Angels with Dirty Faces.
Most productive era
1940s
13 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 | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1980s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.76 films | 7.24 films | 7.14 films | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.63 films | — | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.73 films | 7.06 films | 7.02 films | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.51 film | 6.83 films | 6.61 film | — |
| Crime | 6.76 films | 7.15 films | 6.63 films | 6.61 film | — |
| Romance | 6.81 film | 7.62 films | 7.23 films | — | — |
| Horror | 6.21 film | — | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1932Three on a Match
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Harve.
Career peak
1943Casablanca
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance
2022Rat Pack
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
The current state of the argument, as Philip Marlowe (archive footage) (uncredited).
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.
30 of 30 films
as Rick Blaine
Directed by Michael Curtiz
as Fred C. Dobbs
Directed by John Huston
as Samuel Spade
Directed by John Huston
as Linus Larrabee
Directed by Billy Wilder
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
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack (2022)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self (archive footage) gives Humphrey Bogart a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rick Blaine
Casablanca (1943)
Performance score8.6
Casablanca asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rick Blaine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fred C. Dobbs
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Performance score8.1
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fred C. Dobbs is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Samuel Spade
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Performance score8.1
The Maltese Falcon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Samuel Spade 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 Self (archive footage)
Start here. Rat Pack is the clearest statement of what Humphrey Bogart does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Humphrey 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 Maltese Falcon (1941)
A deliberate change of key after Rat Pack — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Casablanca (1943)
A deliberate change of key after The Maltese Falcon — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Keeps the drama register of Casablanca but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sabrina (1954)
Keeps the drama register of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Huston
Director
6 films together
Notably The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Michael Curtiz
Director
4 films together
Notably Casablanca
Raoul Walsh
Director
2 films together
Notably The Roaring Twenties
Vincent Sherman
Director
2 films together
Notably All Through the Night
Howard Hawks
Director
2 films together
Notably The Big Sleep
William Wyler
Director
2 films together
Notably The Desperate Hours
Mervyn LeRoy
Director
1 film together
Notably Three on a Match
Archie Mayo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Petrified Forest
Lloyd Bacon
Director
1 film together
Notably Marked Woman
Zoltan Korda
Director
1 film together
Notably Sahara
John Cromwell
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Reckoning
Delmer Daves
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Passage
Nicholas Ray
Director
1 film together
Notably In a Lonely Place
Billy Wilder
Director
1 film together
Notably Sabrina
Edward Dmytryk
Director
1 film together
Notably The Caine Mutiny
Carl Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Huston
Director
6 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 6 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Treasure of the Sierra MadreMichael Curtiz
Director
4 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
CasablancaHoward Hawks
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Big SleepRaoul Walsh
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Roaring TwentiesWilliam Wyler
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Desperate HoursVincent Sherman
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
All Through the NightBilly Wilder
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SabrinaNicholas Ray
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In a Lonely PlaceEdward Dmytryk
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Caine MutinyDelmer Daves
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark PassageZoltan Korda
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SaharaArchie Mayo
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Petrified ForestCarl Reiner
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidJohn Cromwell
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead ReckoningLloyd Bacon
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marked WomanMervyn LeRoy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three on a MatchSix 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
Casablanca
as Rick Blaine
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Casablanca
as Rick Blaine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
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. Humphrey Bogart 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
94 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.
Crime Legend
Awarded
15 catalogue titles in crime, 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
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Maltese Falcon
as Samuel Spade
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The African Queen
as Charlie Allnut
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Maltese Falcon
as Samuel Spade
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as Fred C. Dobbs
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sabrina
as Linus Larrabee
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Return of Doctor X
as Dr. Maurice Xavier
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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