FrameThrower · Actors · Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper
15 films · 1,073 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1987–2023
Born 9 July 1951 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Christopher Walton Cooper is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,073 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1987–2023
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2003
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture2003
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,073 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Chris takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Chris takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Boston Strangler
2023 · Jack Maclaine
Coming Through the Rye
2016 · J.D. Salinger
Adaptation
2002 · John Laroche
Matewan
1987 · Joe Kenehan
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
· Jerry Vogel
Live By Night
2016 · Chief Irving Figgis
The Town
2010 · Stephen MacRay
Where The Wild Things Are
2009 · Douglas (voice)
Syriana
2005 · Jimmy Pope
Capote
2005 · Alvin Dewey
Seabiscuit
2003 · Tom Smith
American Beauty
1999 · Colonel Fitts
Great Expectations
1998 · Joe
This Boy's Life
1993 · Roy
Jarhead
· Lt. Col. Kazinski
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 1,073 frames from Chris Cooper's 15 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.