FrameThrower · Actors · Harvey Guillén
Harvey Guillén
3 films · 291 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2022–2025
Born 3 May 1990 · Orange County, California, USA
Javier "Harvey" Guillén is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the human familiar Guillermo de la Cruz in the television series What We Do in the Shadows.
Guillén is the son of Mexican immigrants. He adopted the name Harvey when school teachers could not pronounce his first name. Guillén attended Citrus College, completing the three-year Citrus Singers program in 2005. His father, who was the first person who encouraged him to pursue acting, died of lung cancer in 2017.
Guillén speaks Spanish, English, and Japanese—the last acquired during a 13-month visit to Japan.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 291 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Harvey takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Harvey 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 291 frames from Harvey Guillén's 3 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.