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Charles Shaughnessy

Charles Shaughnessy

2 films · 62 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20122018

Born 9 February 1955 · London, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born 9 February 1955) is a British peer, and television, theatre and film actor. He is known for his roles on American television, as Shane Donovan on the soap opera Days of our Lives and as Maxwell Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 62 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20122018

  • Daytime Emmy Award

How their films are shot

Measured across 62 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charles 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, 52% of their frames are day, 61% natural — the look of the work Charles takes.

Time of day

Day52%
Night27%
Interior18%

Lighting

Natural61%
High key31%
Low key8%

Shot size

Medium69%
Wide11%
Fullbody10%
Closeup8%

Mood

Neutral74%
Joyful11%
Tense4%
Lonely4%

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 62 frames from Charles Shaughnessy'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.