FrameThrower · Actors · Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn
12 films · 1,088 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2012–2025
Born 3 April 1969 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his break-out role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He gained international attention for his starring role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). He has since had roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Lost River (2014), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Darkest Hour (2017), and Ready Player One (2018).
Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix drama series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. He played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood (2018).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 1,088 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2012–2025
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,088 frames from the 12 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 12 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 48% 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.
Roofman
2025 · Pastor Ron
Captain Marvel
2019 · Talos / Keller
Ready Player One
2018 · Sorrento
Slow West
2015 · Payne
Mississippi Grind
2015 · Gerry
Killing Them Softly
2012 · Russell
Darkest Hour
2017 · King George VI
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016 · Orson Krennic
Lost River
2014 · Dave
Black Sea
2014 · Fraser
The Place Beyond The Pines
2012 · Robin Van Der Hook
The King
· King Henry IV
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 1,088 frames from Ben Mendelsohn's 12 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.