Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5392
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jason Gedrick works on quiet performance 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.
Jason Gedrick appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jason. Born on the Fourth of July is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, drama, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Tollin, Ron Howard, Oliver Stone and others, Jason Gedrick 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.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) as Martinez - Vietnam · Bad Boys (1983) as Inmate (uncredited) · Backdraft (1991) as Tim Kirzminski
Career snapshot
Ranked #5392 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1983–2001
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Born on the Fourth of July
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Born on the Fourth of July
Most frequent director
Michael Tollin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael Tollin
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
2h 1m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.4
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
6.9 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Born on the Fourth of July, Risky Business, Bad Boys — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
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
1980s
6.9
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. Born on the Fourth of July, Risky Business, Bad Boys.
Most productive era
1980s
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.93 films | 6.71 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | — | 5.41 film |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 6.71 film | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — | 5.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1983Risky Business
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Extra at Party (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1983Bad Boys
7.0 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
2001Summer Catch
The current state of the argument, as Mike Dunne.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Inmate (uncredited)
Directed by Rick Rosenthal
as Tim Kirzminski
Directed by Ron Howard
as Extra at Party (uncredited)
Directed by Paul Brickman
as Mike Dunne
Directed by Michael Tollin
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
Martinez - Vietnam
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Martinez - Vietnam gives Jason Gedrick a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Inmate (uncredited)
Bad Boys (1983)
Performance score6.9
Bad Boys asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Inmate (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tim Kirzminski
Backdraft (1991)
Performance score6.6
Backdraft asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tim Kirzminski is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Extra at Party (uncredited)
Risky Business (1983)
Performance score6.6
Risky Business asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Extra at Party (uncredited) 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 Martinez - Vietnam
Start here. Born on the Fourth of July is the clearest statement of what Jason Gedrick does — accessible, 145 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jason 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.
Bad Boys (1983)
Keeps the drama register of Born on the Fourth of July but asks for a colder reading of it.
Risky Business (1983)
Keeps the drama register of Bad Boys but asks for a colder reading of it.
Backdraft (1991)
Keeps the drama register of Risky Business but asks for a colder reading of it.
Summer Catch (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Backdraft — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rick Rosenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Boys
Paul Brickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Risky Business
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Born on the Fourth of July
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Backdraft
Michael Tollin
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer Catch
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Born on the Fourth of JulyRick Rosenthal
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad BoysRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BackdraftPaul Brickman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Risky BusinessMichael Tollin
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer CatchSix 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
Bad Boys
as Inmate (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Risky Business
as Extra at Party (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bad Boys
as Inmate (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Risky Business
as Extra at Party (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Born on the Fourth of July
as Martinez - Vietnam
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. Jason Gedrick 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Bad Boys
as Inmate (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bad Boys
as Inmate (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Risky Business
as Extra at Party (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Bad Boys
as Inmate (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Backdraft
as Tim Kirzminski
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Backdraft
as Tim Kirzminski
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Risky Business
as Extra at Party (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Backdraft
as Tim Kirzminski
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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