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Dominic Purcell

Dominic Purcell

2 films · 239 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20002009

Born 17 February 1970 · Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK

Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell is a British-born Australian actor best known for his role as Lincoln Burrows in Prison Break, the title character in John Doe, and Dracula in Blade: Trinity.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 239 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20002009

  • Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actor2007

How their films are shot

Measured across 239 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dominic takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 61% low key — the look of the work Dominic takes.

Time of day

Night61%
Day30%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Low key61%
Natural27%
Silhouette6%
Chiaroscuro4%

Shot size

Medium41%
Closeup32%
Wide15%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
Low angle8%
High angle7%

Mood

Tense32%
Neutral30%
Ominous14%
Lonely13%

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 239 frames from Dominic Purcell's 2 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.