FrameThrower · Actors · Costas Mandylor
Costas Mandylor
5 films · 351 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2008–2021
Born 3 September 1965 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Costas Mandylor is a Australian actor of Greek descent. He is best known for portraying Detective Mark Hoffman in the Saw film franchise from 2006 to 2010, as well as Kenny Lacos in the family drama series Picket Fences (1992-1996).
How their films are shot
Measured across 351 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Costas 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, 88% of their frames are night, 85% low key — the look of the work Costas 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 351 frames from Costas Mandylor'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.