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Charlie Korsmo

Charlie Korsmo

3 films · 141 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19902018

Born 20 July 1978 · Fargo, North Dakota, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Randolph "Charlie" Korsmo is an American former child actor turned lawyer and political activist.

Korsmo was born in Fargo, North Dakota, the son of Deborah Ruf, an educational psychologist, and John Korsmo, a hospital administrator and chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board.  He was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he attended and graduated from Breck School. He has one older brother, Ted (born 1976), and one younger brother, Joe (born 1983). Korsmo's acting roles included The Kid/Dick Tracy, Jr.

How their films are shot

Measured across 141 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 70% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Charlie takes.

Time of day

Night70%
Day25%

Lighting

Low key57%
Natural25%
High key7%
Chiaroscuro7%

Shot size

Medium47%
Closeup21%
Wide21%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level89%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral52%
Tense28%
Ominous12%
Lonely4%

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 141 frames from Charlie Korsmo'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.