Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#31624
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Patrick Magee 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.
Patrick Magee appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. A Clockwork Orange is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, history, war. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Hugh Hudson, Stanley Kubrick, Roger Corman and others, Patrick Magee 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.
A Clockwork Orange (1971) as Mr. Alexander · Barry Lyndon (1975) as The Chevalier · Zulu (1964) as Surgeon Reynolds
Career snapshot
Ranked #31624 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
1963–1981
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
A Clockwork Orange
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
A Clockwork Orange
Most frequent director
Stanley Kubrick
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Stanley Kubrick
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
2h 5m
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
6.6
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
8.1 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
8.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
8.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Masque of the Red Death, Zulu, Dementia 13.
Most productive era
1960s
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 | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.82 films | 7.81 film | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | 8.31 film | — |
| Horror | 6.22 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1963Dementia 13
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Justin Caleb.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 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
1981Chariots of Fire
The current state of the argument, as Lord Cadogan.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Mr. Alexander
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
as The Chevalier
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
as Surgeon Reynolds
Directed by Cy Endfield
as Lord Cadogan
Directed by Hugh Hudson
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
Mr. Alexander
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mr. Alexander gives Patrick Magee a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The Chevalier
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Performance score8.1
Barry Lyndon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Chevalier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Surgeon Reynolds
Zulu (1964)
Performance score7.0
Zulu asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Surgeon Reynolds is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alfredo
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Performance score6.7
The Masque of the Red Death asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alfredo 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 Mr. Alexander
Start here. A Clockwork Orange is the clearest statement of what Patrick Magee does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.3 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.
Zulu (1964)
A deliberate change of key after A Clockwork Orange — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Keeps the drama register of Zulu but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Keeps the drama register of The Masque of the Red Death but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Keeps the drama register of Barry Lyndon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stanley Kubrick
Director
2 films together
Notably A Clockwork Orange
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Dementia 13
Cy Endfield
Director
1 film together
Notably Zulu
Roger Corman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Masque of the Red Death
Hugh Hudson
Director
1 film together
Notably Chariots of Fire
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Stanley Kubrick
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Clockwork OrangeCy Endfield
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZuluHugh Hudson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chariots of FireRoger Corman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Masque of the Red DeathFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dementia 13Six 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
A Clockwork Orange
as Mr. Alexander
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Chariots of Fire
as Lord Cadogan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Clockwork Orange
as Mr. Alexander
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Chariots of Fire
as Lord Cadogan
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Clockwork Orange
as Mr. Alexander
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 Magee 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
A Clockwork Orange
as Mr. Alexander
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Clockwork Orange
as Mr. Alexander
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Chariots of Fire
as Lord Cadogan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dementia 13
as Justin Caleb
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Clockwork Orange
as Mr. Alexander
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
A Clockwork Orange
as Mr. Alexander
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Barry Lyndon
as The Chevalier
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Dementia 13
as Justin Caleb
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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