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Dan Beirne

Dan Beirne

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20192023

Born 12 August 1982 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Daniel Beirne is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance as Mackenzie King in the 2019 film The Twentieth Century, for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019 and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dan 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, 54% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Dan takes.

Time of day

Night54%
Day31%
Interior13%

Lighting

Low key48%
Natural26%
High key16%
Silhouette6%

Shot size

Medium56%
Wide20%
Closeup15%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
Low angle7%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral65%
Tense12%
Ominous8%
Lonely6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Dan Beirne'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.