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Griffin Dunne

Griffin Dunne

4 films · 261 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19812007

Born 8 June 1955 · New York City, New York, USA

Thomas Griffin Dunne is an American actor, producer, and film director. He is known for portraying Jack Goodman in An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Paul Hackett in After Hours (1985), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 261 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19812007

  • Theatre World Award1992

How their films are shot

Measured across 261 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Griffin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Griffin takes.

Time of day

Night56%
Day39%

Lighting

Low key47%
Natural41%
High key8%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium40%
Wide26%
Closeup21%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
Low angle9%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral58%
Tense18%
Lonely14%
Ominous6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

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 261 frames from Griffin Dunne's 4 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.