FrameThrower · Actors · Christopher Knights
Christopher Knights
2 films · 213 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2005–2014
Born 18 October 1972 · London, England, UK
Christopher Knights is an English voice actor, film editor and camera operator best known for providing the voice of Private the Penguin in Madagascar. He worked on several DreamWorks films Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, and Shrek 4-D. He started his filming career at Amblimation studios and worked on We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story and Balto. When he joined DreamWorks he did not only start his editing career but his acting career. He worked on Shrek Forever After as Associate Editor and voice of the Three Blind Mice. He worked many times with another English cameraman and voice actor, Simon J. Smith.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 213 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Christopher 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, 57% natural — the look of the work Christopher 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 213 frames from Christopher Knights'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.