FrameThrower · Actors · Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo
7 films · 735 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1994–2021
Born 16 May 1944 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Dan Trejo is a Native Mexican-American actor, and character actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as hypermasculine characters, villains and anti-heroes. Some of his notable films include Heat, Con Air, Machete, and Desperado, the latter two with frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez.
How their films are shot
Measured across 735 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Danny takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Danny 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 735 frames from Danny Trejo's 7 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.