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Dan Stevens

Dan Stevens

9 films · 914 frames · top-billed in 7 · 20142024

Born 10 October 1982 · Croydon, London, England, UK

Daniel Jonathan Stevens is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2012).

He also starred as David in the thriller film The Guest (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama Marshall (2017), Charles Dickens in the biographical drama The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) and Russian Eurovision singer Alexander Lemtov in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020).

How their films are shot

Measured across 914 frames from the 9 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 9 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Dan takes.

Time of day

Night60%
Day33%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key59%
Natural34%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium45%
Closeup27%
Wide19%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
Low angle9%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral44%
Tense26%
Ominous10%
Lonely8%

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 914 frames from Dan Stevens's 9 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.