Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1785
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Phil Proctor represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Phil is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Phil Proctor appears in 31 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Phil. The Lion King is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Pete Docter, John Musker, Craig Shapiro and others, Phil Proctor 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.
The Lion King (1994) as Additional Voices (voice) · Toy Story (1995) as Pizza Planet Announcer / Pizza Planet Guard (voice) · Inside Out (2015) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1785 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
31
1987–2015
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
The Lion King
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Lion King
Most frequent director
John Musker
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With John Musker
Most common genre
Family
29 titles
Average runtime
1h 28m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2010s
8.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Inside Out — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
8.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.9
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. Amazon Women on the Moon.
Most productive era
1990s
15 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 | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.74 films | — | 8.11 film |
| Action | — | 6.61 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | 6.78 films | 6.48 films | 8.11 film |
| Romance | — | 7.53 films | 6.32 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mike (segment "Silly Paté").
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1994The Lion King
8.5 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
2015Inside Out
The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (voice).
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.
31 of 31 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Rob Minkoff
as Pizza Planet Announcer / Pizza Planet Guard (voice)
Directed by John Lasseter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
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
Additional Voices (voice)
The Lion King (1994)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Phil Proctor a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Pizza Planet Announcer / Pizza Planet Guard (voice)
Toy Story (1995)
Performance score8.0
Toy Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pizza Planet Announcer / Pizza Planet Guard (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Inside Out (2015)
Performance score7.8
Inside Out asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Performance score7.8
Finding Nemo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. The Lion King is the clearest statement of what Phil Proctor does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Phil 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.
Toy Story (1995)
Keeps the family register of The Lion King but asks for a colder reading of it.
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Keeps the comedy register of Toy Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Finding Nemo (2003)
Keeps the family register of Monsters, Inc. but asks for a colder reading of it.
Inside Out (2015)
Keeps the adventure register of Finding Nemo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Lasseter
Director
3 films together
Notably Toy Story
John Musker
Director
3 films together
Notably Aladdin
Mike Gabriel
Director
2 films together
Notably Pocahontas
Kirk Wise
Director
2 films together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
Pete Docter
Director
2 films together
Notably Inside Out
Robert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together
Notably Amazon Women on the Moon
Brian Henson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Muppet Christmas Carol
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lion King
Jason Bloom
Director
1 film together
Notably Bio-Dome
Betty Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Dolittle
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets from Space
Kevin Lima
Director
1 film together
Notably Tarzan
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably The Iron Giant
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Emperor's New Groove
Chuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together
Notably Recess: School's Out
Steve Loter
Director
1 film together
Notably Tarzan & Jane
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably Finding Nemo
Will Finn
Director
1 film together
Notably Home on the Range
Steve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together
Notably Barnyard
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum
Craig Shapiro
Director
1 film together
Notably Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Lasseter
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Toy StoryJohn Musker
Director
3 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AladdinPete Docter
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
Inside OutKirk Wise
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastMike Gabriel
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
PocahontasRob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lion KingAndrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Finding NemoBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Iron GiantMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Emperor's New GrooveKevin Lima
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TarzanBrian Henson
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 Muppet Christmas CarolShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the MuseumChuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Recess: School's OutWill Finn
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home on the RangeSteve Loter
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tarzan & JaneTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets from SpaceSteve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarnyardBetty Thomas
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor DolittleRobert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Amazon Women on the MoonCraig Shapiro
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the ChiefJason Bloom
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bio-DomeSix 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 Lion King
as Additional Voices (voice)
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 Lion King
as Additional Voices (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
The Lion King
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Additional Muppet Performer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Lion King
as Additional Voices (voice)
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. Phil Proctor 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
28 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
29 catalogue titles in family, 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
The Lion King
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Lion King
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Princess and the Frog
as Cajun Firefly (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Treasure Planet
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Finding Nemo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Rescuers Down Under
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Toy Story
as Pizza Planet Announcer / Pizza Planet Guard (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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