Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15890
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Richard Dixon works on versatility 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.
Richard Dixon appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Richard. The King's Speech is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, horror, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Giacchino, Ron Howard, Simon Curtis and others, Richard Dixon 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 King's Speech (2010) as Private Secretary · Les Misérables (2012) as Mairie Officer · Werewolf by Night (2022) as Ulysses Bloodstone (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #15890 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2010–2022
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The King's Speech
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The King's Speech
Most frequent director
Tom Hooper
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tom Hooper
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
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
6.9
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
6.4
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Werewolf by Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Solo: A Star Wars Story, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Far from the Madding Crowd.
Most productive era
2010s
8 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.87 films | — |
| Action | 6.32 films | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 7.01 film | — |
| Horror | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Private Secretary. 7.7 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
The current state of the argument, as Ulysses Bloodstone (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.
9 of 9 films
as Private Secretary
Directed by Tom Hooper
as Mairie Officer
Directed by Tom Hooper
as Ulysses Bloodstone (voice)
Directed by Michael Giacchino
as MC at Pageant
Directed by Simon Curtis
as Mr. Boldwood's Butler
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
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
Private Secretary
The King's Speech (2010)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Private Secretary gives Richard Dixon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mairie Officer
Les Misérables (2012)
Performance score7.2
Les Misérables asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mairie Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ulysses Bloodstone (voice)
Werewolf by Night (2022)
Performance score6.9
Werewolf by Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ulysses Bloodstone (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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MC at Pageant
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Performance score6.9
Goodbye Christopher Robin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. MC at Pageant 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 Private Secretary
Start here. The King's Speech is the clearest statement of what Richard Dixon does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Richard 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.
Les Misérables (2012)
Same director as The King's Speech, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Les Misérables but asks for a colder reading of it.
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Far from the Madding Crowd but asks for a colder reading of it.
Werewolf by Night (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Goodbye Christopher Robin — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Hooper
Director
2 films together
Notably The King's Speech
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack the Giant Slayer
Thomas Vinterberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Far from the Madding Crowd
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodbye Christopher Robin
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo: A Star Wars Story
Michael Giacchino
Director
1 film together
Notably Werewolf by Night
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tom Hooper
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
The King's SpeechMichael Giacchino
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Werewolf by NightSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodbye Christopher RobinThomas Vinterberg
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Far from the Madding CrowdRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo: A Star Wars StoryBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack the Giant SlayerSix 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 King's Speech
as Private Secretary
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 King's Speech
as Private Secretary
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 King's Speech
as Private Secretary
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Elite Citizen (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The King's Speech
as Private Secretary
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. Richard Dixon 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.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 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
The King's Speech
as Private Secretary
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Werewolf by Night
as Ulysses Bloodstone (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Goodbye Christopher Robin
as MC at Pageant
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Jack the Giant Slayer
as King's Artiste
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Werewolf by Night
as Ulysses Bloodstone (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Elite Citizen (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Les Misérables
as Mairie Officer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Elite Citizen (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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