FrameThrower · Actors · Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Haysbert
5 films · 310 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2024
Born 2 June 1954 · San Mateo, California, USA
Dennis Dexter Haysbert is an American actor. He is known for his roles as baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the Major League film trilogy, Secret Service agent Tim Collin in the political thriller film Absolute Power, Sergeant Major Jonas Blane on the CBS military action drama series The Unit, God on the Netflix show Lucifer, and President David Palmer on the first five seasons of 24. He has also appeared in the films Love Field, Navy SEALS, Heat, Waiting to Exhale, Far from Heaven, and the science fiction series Incorporated. He is the narrator for the A&E Network's American Justice television series.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 310 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2024
- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television2000
How their films are shot
Measured across 310 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dennis takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night — the look of the work Dennis 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 310 frames from Dennis Haysbert's 5 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.