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Billy Boyd

Billy Boyd

3 films · 318 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20012004

Born 28 August 1968 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Billy Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Boyd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 318 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Billy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Billy takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night40%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key38%
High key8%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Wide30%
Closeup29%
Medium24%
Establishing16%

Camera angle

Eye level73%
High angle14%
Low angle10%

Mood

Neutral39%
Tense21%
Ominous18%
Lonely11%

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 318 frames from Billy Boyd's 3 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.