Acting · Writing · age 64

Cary Elwes

Every film, by IMDb rating

The career

Cary Elwes, acting career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.

Cary Elwes's career barcodecoolhot

198466 films2025

Current formLast 5: 6.16 vs career 5.96 (+0.20)

As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes

Average

5.96

49 rated films

Vote weighted

6.09

bigger films count more

Median

6.2

half are better

Consistency

±1.04

rating spread

Career

42y

1984 to 2025

Total votes

3.64M

across every film

Best

8.0

The Princess Bride

Worst

3.5

Black Christmas

Newest first

Acting filmography

2025	Dead Man's Wire	Michael Grable	6.4	14,758
2025	The Panic	Charles Barney	·	85
2024	The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare	Brigadier Gubbins 'M'	6.8	173K
2023	Sweetwater	Ned Irish	6.1	1,611
2023	Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre	Nathan	6.3	114K
2022	The Hyperions	Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum	5.2	2,325
2021	Best Sellers	Halpern Nolan	6.2	7,914
2021	A Castle for Christmas	Myles	5.6	17,384
2021	Last Train to Christmas	Roger Towers	6.0	3,762
2021	Burning at Both Ends	Jacques	·	882
2021	The Unholy	Bishop Gyles	5.1	31,542
2019	Black Christmas	Professor Gelson	3.5	21,804
2018	Ghost Light	Alex Pankhurst	·	919
2017	Don't Sleep	Dr. Richard Sommers	3.4	1,310
2016	The Queen of Spain	Gary Jones	5.3	2,435
2016	Indiscretion	Jake Simon	4.8	1,203
2016	Sugar Mountain	Jim Huxley	5.5	4,607
2016	Lost & Found	John Broman	5.6	1,473
2015	A Haunting in Cawdor	Lawrence O'Neil	·	683
2015	H8RZ	Principal Donato	·	702

Better together?

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.

Takes

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