FrameThrower · Actors · Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn
6 films · 344 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1990–2017
Born 8 March 1959 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Aidan Quinn is an American actor. He made his film debut in Reckless (1984) and has starred in over 80 feature films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), The Mission (1986), Stakeout (1987), All My Sons (1987), Avalon (1990), Benny & Joon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Wild Child (2008) and Unknown (2011). He also played Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson on the CBS television series Elementary (2012–19).
Quinn has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in the television films An Early Frost (1985) and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 344 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1990–2017
- Theatre World Award1988
How their films are shot
Measured across 344 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Aidan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Aidan takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 344 frames from Aidan Quinn's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.