FrameThrower · Actors · David Thewlis
David Thewlis
16 films · 823 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1990–2025
Born 20 March 1963 · Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
David Wheeler, better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television. He has received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and acted in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993), winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the latter.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 823 frames from the 16 films we hold. This is the look of the work David takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 16 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work David takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Thing with Feathers
2025 · Crow (voice)
Anomalisa
2015 · Michael Stone (voice)
The Zero Theorem
2013 · Joby
Anonymous
2011 · William Cecil
London Boulevard
2010 · Jordan
Naked
1993 · Johnny
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
2020 · Father
Wonder Woman
2017 · Sir Patrick / Ares
Macbeth
2015 · Duncan
The Theory of Everything
2014 · Dennis Sciama
War Horse
2011 · Lyons
The New World
2005 · Wingfield
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Remus Lupin
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Earthworm (voice)
Restoration
1995 · John Pearce
Life Is Sweet
1990 · Nicola's Lover
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 823 frames from David Thewlis's 16 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.