FrameThrower · Actors · Grant Bowler
Grant Bowler
2 films · 206 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2015–2020
Born 18 July 1968 · Auckland, New Zealand
Grant Bowler is a New Zealand-Australian actor who has made appearances on American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian movies and television shows. He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne Patterson in Blue Heelers and also appeared as Wilhelmina Slater's love interest Connor Owens in Ugly Betty. In November 2010, he was announced as the host of The Amazing Race Australia which will air on the Seven Network in 2011.
Bowler was married to South African actress Roxane Wilson from 2001 to 2011 and has two children.
How their films are shot
Measured across 206 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Grant 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, 63% of their frames are night, 63% low key — the look of the work Grant takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 206 frames from Grant Bowler'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.