Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8613
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tim Daly represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 43 years in, and Tim is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tim Daly appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tim. Justice League: Doom is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for western, adventure, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brian Helgeland, Lauren Montgomery, Sam Liu and others, Tim Daly 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.
Justice League: Doom (2012) as Superman (voice) · The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997) as Superman / Clark Kent (voice) · Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009) as Superman (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8613 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1982–2025
Career length
43 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Justice League: Doom
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Justice League: Doom
Most frequent director
Brian Helgeland
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Brian Helgeland
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.9
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Justice League: Doom — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. Diner.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 5.81 film | 6.82 films | — | 6.91 film |
| Action | — | 7.41 film | 6.82 films | 7.41 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.51 film | — | 6.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | — | — | — | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.51 film | — | 6.62 films |
| Romance | — | 5.81 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1982Diner
Where our catalogue meets this career, as William 'Billy' Howard.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1997The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
7.4 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 Isaac Broadway.
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 Superman / Clark Kent (voice)
Directed by Toshihiko Masuda
as Superman (voice)
Directed by Lauren Montgomery
as Superman (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as William 'Billy' Howard
Directed by Barry Levinson
as Gary Sykes
Directed by Brian Helgeland
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Superman / Clark Kent (voice)
The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Superman / Clark Kent (voice) gives Tim Daly a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Superman (voice)
Justice League: Doom (2012)
Performance score7.7
Justice League: Doom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Superman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Superman (voice)
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Performance score7.7
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Superman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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William 'Billy' Howard
Diner (1982)
Performance score7.0
Diner asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. William 'Billy' Howard 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 Superman / Clark Kent (voice)
Start here. The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest is the clearest statement of what Tim Daly does — accessible, 64 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tim 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.
Diner (1982)
A deliberate change of key after The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Diner but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League: Doom (2012)
Keeps the action register of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies but asks for a colder reading of it.
Finestkind (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Justice League: Doom — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Diner
Toshihiko Masuda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
Nicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Object of My Affection
John McTiernan
Director
1 film together
Notably Basic
Bille August
Director
1 film together
Notably Return to Sender
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: Doom
Brian Helgeland
Director
1 film together
Notably Finestkind
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: DoomToshihiko Masuda
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Batman/Superman Movie: World's FinestSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman/Batman: Public EnemiesBrian Helgeland
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FinestkindBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DinerJohn McTiernan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BasicBille August
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return to SenderNicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Object of My AffectionSix 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
Finestkind
as Gary Sykes
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 Object of My Affection
as Robert Joley
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 Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
as Superman / Clark Kent (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Finestkind
as Gary Sykes
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
as Superman / Clark Kent (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. Tim Daly 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
43 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
5 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
Justice League: Doom
as Superman (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Finestkind
as Gary Sykes
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Object of My Affection
as Robert Joley
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Finestkind
as Gary Sykes
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
as Superman / Clark Kent (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
as Superman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
as Superman (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Return to Sender
as Martin North
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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