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Bruce Spence

Bruce Spence

3 films · 184 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19811998

Born 17 September 1945 · Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

Bruce Robert Spence is a New Zealand-born Australian actor.

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

How their films are shot

Measured across 184 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bruce 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, 53% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Bruce takes.

Time of day

Night53%
Day36%
Golden hour6%

Lighting

Low key51%
Natural34%
Silhouette10%
High key5%

Shot size

Wide37%
Medium32%
Closeup17%
Establishing9%

Camera angle

Eye level62%
Low angle24%
High angle12%

Mood

Neutral38%
Tense28%
Ominous15%
Lonely10%

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 184 frames from Bruce Spence'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.