Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7632
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Patrick Labyorteaux represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 52 years in, and Patrick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Patrick Labyorteaux appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. Heathers is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 action, mystery, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Marcel Walz, Ryan Ebert, Christopher Ray and others, Patrick Labyorteaux 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.
Heathers (1989) as Ram Sweeney · Blazing Saddles (1974) as Henry (uncredited) · Yes Man (2008) as Marv
Career snapshot
Ranked #7632 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1974–2026
Career length
52 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Heathers
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Heathers
Most frequent director
Marcel Walz
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Marcel Walz
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
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
6.5
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
1970s
7.2 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Blazing Saddles — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.2
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Blazing Saddles.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 1970s | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action | — | — | — | 4.41 film | 3.42 films |
| Thriller | — | — | — | — | 4.51 film |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 7.21 film | 6.81 film | 4.41 film | — |
| Crime | — | 7.21 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.81 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 4.41 film | 4.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1974Blazing Saddles
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Henry (uncredited). 7.2 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
2026Ice-Pocalypse
The current state of the argument, as General David Green.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Ram Sweeney
Directed by Michael Lehmann
as Henry (uncredited)
Directed by Mel Brooks
as Marv
Directed by Peyton Reed
as General David Green
Directed by Marcel Walz
as Walter Roberts
Directed by Ryan Ebert
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
Ram Sweeney
Heathers (1989)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ram Sweeney gives Patrick Labyorteaux a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Henry (uncredited)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Performance score7.1
Blazing Saddles asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Henry (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marv
Yes Man (2008)
Performance score6.7
Yes Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marv is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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General David Green
Ice-Pocalypse (2026)
Performance score6.5
Ice-Pocalypse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. General David Green 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 Ram Sweeney
Start here. Heathers is the clearest statement of what Patrick Labyorteaux does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patrick 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.
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Keeps the comedy register of Heathers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Yes Man (2008)
Keeps the comedy register of Blazing Saddles but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Jolly Monkey (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Yes Man — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ice-Pocalypse (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Jolly Monkey — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mel Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably Blazing Saddles
Michael Lehmann
Director
1 film together
Notably Heathers
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Yes Man
Christopher Ray
Director
1 film together
Notably Attack of the Meth Gator
Ryan Ebert
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jolly Monkey
Marcel Walz
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice-Pocalypse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Lehmann
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeathersMel Brooks
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blazing SaddlesPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Yes ManChristopher Ray
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Attack of the Meth GatorRyan Ebert
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Jolly MonkeyMarcel Walz
Director
1 film together · 1.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice-PocalypseSix 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
Heathers
as Ram Sweeney
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Yes Man
as Marv
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Blazing Saddles
as Henry (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Blazing Saddles
as Henry (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Heathers
as Ram Sweeney
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. Patrick Labyorteaux 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
52 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
4 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
Heathers
as Ram Sweeney
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Heathers
as Ram Sweeney
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Yes Man
as Marv
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Jolly Monkey
as Walter Roberts
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Blazing Saddles
as Henry (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
as Caesar
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Heathers
as Ram Sweeney
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Yes Man
as Marv
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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