FrameThrower · Actors · Charlie Day
Charlie Day
7 films · 676 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2010–2023
Born 9 February 1976 · New York City, New York, USA
Charles Peckham Day is an American actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on the FX/FXX dark comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), of which he is also a writer and an executive producer. In 2011, he was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Satellite Award for the role. Subsequently, he co-created the Apple TV+ comedy Mythic Quest (2020–2025) with Rob Mac and Megan Ganz.
In film, Day is best known for his performances as Dr. Newton Geiszler in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013), Dale Arbus in the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011) and its sequel Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), and Andy Campbell in the comedy Fist Fight (2017).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 676 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charlie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 43% natural — the look of the work Charlie takes.
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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 676 frames from Charlie Day's 7 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.