Acting · 1929 to 2015

Richard Dysart

Best rated: The Thing (8.2)

Every film, by IMDb rating

The career

Richard Dysart, 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.

Richard Dysart's career barcodecoolhot

196819 films1999

Current formLast 5: 7.46 vs career 6.92 (+0.54)

As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes

Average

6.92

17 rated films

Vote weighted

6.98

bigger films count more

Median

6.9

half are better

Consistency

±0.95

rating spread

Career

32y

1968 to 1999

Total votes

1.32M

across every film

Best

8.2

The Thing

Worst

5.1

Meteor

Newest first

Acting filmography

1999	Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle	Cogliostro	8.2	1,029
1998	Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2	Cogliostro	8.2	1,222
1990	Back to the Future Part III	Barbwire Salesman	7.5	527K
1985	The Falcon and the Snowman	Dr. Lee	6.8	14,307
1985	Mask	Abe	7.2	35,613
1985	Pale Rider	Coy LaHood	7.3	71,873
1985	Warning Sign	Dr. Nielsen	6.1	3,196
1982	The Thing	Dr. Copper	8.2	537K
1979	Being There	Dr. Robert Allenby	7.9	82,786
1979	Meteor	Secretary of Defense	5.1	9,641
1979	Prophecy	Isely	5.6	7,178
1978	An Enemy of the People	Aslaksen	6.9	1,672
1975	The Day of the Locust	Claude Estee	6.9	7,112
1975	The Hindenburg	Lehmann	6.3	7,368
1974	The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder	Father	·	253
1974	The Terminal Man	Dr. John Ellis	5.6	2,922
1971	The Hospital	Dr. Welbeck	7.1	8,393
1969	The Lost Man	Barnes	·	284
1968	Petulia	Motel Receptionist on Monitor	6.8	3,765

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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