FrameThrower · Actors · Chris O'Dowd
Chris O'Dowd
5 films · 501 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2017
Born 9 October 1979 · Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
Christopher O'Dowd is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids (2011), Cuban Fury (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). He created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, which aired from 2012 to 2015 and brought him Irish Film and Television Award nominations for acting, writing and directing.
Since 2017, he has appeared as Miles Daly in the Epix comedy series Get Shorty.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 501 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2017
- BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Performer2022
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series2019
- Theatre World Award2014
How their films are shot
Measured across 501 frames from the 5 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 5 films we hold, 61% of their frames are day, 57% natural — the look of the work Chris takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 501 frames from Chris O'Dowd's 5 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.