FrameThrower · Actors · Cliff Curtis
Cliff Curtis
13 films · 1,262 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1993–2025
Born 27 July 1968 · Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis is a New Zealand actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, Doctor Sleep (2019), Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). His television roles include NBC's Trauma, and ABC's Body of Proof and Missing. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.
He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,262 frames from the 13 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cliff takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 13 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Cliff 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.
10,000 BC
2008 · Tic-Tic
Ash
2025 · Tonowari
Last Breath
2025 · Andre Jenson (Captain)
Meg 2: The Trench
2023 · Mac
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 · Tonowari
The Meg
2018 · James 'Mac' Mackreides
The Fountain
2006 · Captain Ariel
Training Day
2001 · Smiley
Three Kings
1999 · Amir Abdullah
Bringing Out The Dead
1999 · Cy Coates
The Piano
1993 · Mana
Doctor Sleep
· Billy Freeman
Sunshine
· Searle
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 1,262 frames from Cliff Curtis's 13 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.