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Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Mulroney

9 films · 754 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20042023

Born 31 October 1963 · Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Dermot Patrick Mulroney is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles in romantic comedy, western, and drama films.

Mulroney is known for his work in various films such as Long Gone (1987), Young Guns (1988), Staying Together (1989), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Point of No Return (1993), The Last Outlaw (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), About Schmidt (2002), The Wedding Date (2005), Zodiac (2007), August: Osage County (2013), Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), Scream VI, and Anyone but You (2023).

Mulroney played the main antagonist Francis Gibson in NBC's Crisis (2014), Dr. Walter Wallace in Pure Genius (2016–2017), Sean Pierce in Showtime's Shameless (2015–2017), and Bobby Sheridan in USA's The Purge (2018–2019).

How their films are shot

Measured across 754 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dermot 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, 48% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Dermot takes.

Time of day

Night48%
Day44%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key48%
Natural42%
High key9%

Shot size

Medium45%
Closeup21%
Wide21%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
Low angle7%
High angle7%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense18%
Lonely13%
Ominous5%

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 754 frames from Dermot Mulroney'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.