FrameThrower · Actors · Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis
15 films · 980 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2002–2022
Born 20 April 1964 · Ruislip, Middlesex, England, UK
Andrew Clement Serkis is an English actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his motion capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for computer-generated characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot series (2011–2017), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Baloo in his self-directed film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), also…
How their films are shot
Measured across 980 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Andy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Andy takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 · Caesar
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 · Caesar
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · Caesar
The Adventures of Tintin
2011 · Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock (voice)
Burke & Hare
2010 · William Hare
The Batman
2022 · Alfred
Long Shot
2019 · Parker Wembley
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Snoke
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · Supreme Leader Snoke
The Prestige
2006 · Alley
King Kong
2005 · Kong / Lumpy
13 Going on 30
2004 · Richard Kneeland
The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Gollum / Smeagol
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · Gollum
24 Hour Party People
· Martin
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 980 frames from Andy Serkis's 15 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.