Acting · age 48

Daniel Mays

Best rated: 1917 (8.2)

Every film, by IMDb rating

The career

Daniel Mays, acting career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

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Daniel Mays's career barcodecoolhot

200422 films2025

Current formLast 5: 6.64 vs career 6.61 (+0.03)

As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes

Average

6.61

20 rated films

Vote weighted

6.67

bigger films count more

Median

6.5

half are better

Consistency

±0.73

rating spread

Career

22y

2004 to 2025

Total votes

1.73M

across every film

Best

8.2

1917

Worst

5.2

Dad's Army

Newest first

Acting filmography

2025	The Thursday Murder Club	DCI Chris Hudson	6.5	93,241
2023	Your Christmas or Mine 2	Geoff	5.8	4,658
2023	Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget	Fetcher	6.3	29,843
2022	Your Christmas or Mine?	Geoff	6.4	11,819
2019	Fisherman's Friends	Danny	7.0	13,164
2019	1917	Sergeant Sanders	8.2	788K
2018	Two for Joy	Lias	·	512
2018	Swimming with Men	Colin	6.4	4,800
2016	The Infiltrator	Frankie	7.0	85,827
2016	Dad's Army	Walker	5.2	8,940
2016	The Limehouse Golem	George Flood	6.3	25,356
2015	Victor Frankenstein	Barnaby	6.0	64,258
2013	Welcome to the Punch	Nathan Bartnick	6.1	35,776
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	Allan	7.3	258K
2010	Made in Dagenham	Eddie O'Grady	7.1	16,800
2010	Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang	Blenkinsop	6.1	40,649
2009	The Firm	Yeti	5.8	7,021
2008	The Bank Job	Dave Shilling	7.2	199K
2008	Shifty	Chris	6.5	3,216
2006	Middletown	Jim Hunter	·	372

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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