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Dave Franco

Dave Franco

10 films · 719 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20112024

Born 12 June 1985 · Palo Alto, California, USA

David John Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his career with small roles in films such as Superbad(2007) and Charlie St. Cloud (2010). Following a starring role in the final season of the comedy series Scrubs (2009–2010), Franco had his film breakthrough with a supporting role in the buddy comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012).

Franco has also starred in Fright Night (2011), Now You See Me (2013) and its sequel Now You See Me 2 (2016), Neighbors (2014) and its sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Nerve (2016), The Disaster Artist (2017), and Day Shift (2022). In 2020, he made his directorial debut with The Rental, starring his wife Alison Brie.

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How their films are shot

Measured across 719 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dave takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Dave takes.

Time of day

Night52%
Day35%
Interior9%

Lighting

Low key46%
Natural37%
High key13%

Shot size

Medium49%
Wide21%
Closeup20%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
Low angle6%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral59%
Tense23%
Lonely5%
Ominous5%

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 719 frames from Dave Franco's 10 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.