FrameThrower · Actors · Ben Foster
Ben Foster
9 films · 813 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2004–2018
Born 29 October 1980 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Benjamin A. Foster is an American actor. His films include The Punisher (2004), X-Men: The Last Stand and Alpha Dog (both 2006), 30 Days of Night (2007), The Messenger and Pandorum (both 2009), The Mechanic (2011), Contraband (2012), Kill Your Darlings and Lone Survivor (both 2013), The Program (2015), Warcraft (2016), and Leave No Trace (2018). He has won an Independent Spirit Award for portraying Tanner Howard in Hell or High Water (2016). He also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin in Six Feet Under (2003–05).
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How their films are shot
Measured across 813 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ben takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Ben 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.
Leave No Trace
2018 · Will
Warcraft
2016 · Medivh (Guardian)
Hell or High Water
2016 · Tanner Howard
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
2013 · Patrick Wheeler
Contraband
2012 · Sebastian Abney
Kill Your Darlings
2013 · William Burroughs
Rampart
2011 · General Terry
30 Days of Night
2007 · The Stranger
The Punisher
2004 · Specker Dave
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 813 frames from Ben Foster's 9 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.