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Ashton Holmes

Ashton Holmes

2 films · 120 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20052007

Born 17 February 1978 · Albany, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ashton Holmes) is an American actor of film and television and a former soap opera actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in A History of Violence and Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

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How their films are shot

Measured across 120 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ashton takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 63% low key — the look of the work Ashton takes.

Time of day

Night62%
Day34%

Lighting

Low key63%
Natural29%
Silhouette4%
High key4%

Shot size

Medium37%
Closeup33%
Wide23%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
High angle13%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral44%
Tense32%
Lonely13%
Ominous7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 120 frames from Ashton Holmes's 2 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.