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Ioan Gruffudd

Ioan Gruffudd

2 films · 147 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20002024

Born 6 October 1973 · Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh-American actor. He is known for his roles in film and television series in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.

He was first noted for his portrayal of Harold Lowe in Titanic (1997) and for his portrayal of Horatio Hornblower in the Hornblower series of television films (1998–2003). Subsequent roles have included Lancelot in King Arthur (2004), Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four (2005) and its sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006), Tony Blair in W. (2008), and Adam Lockwood in Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024).

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How their films are shot

Measured across 147 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ioan 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, 53% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Ioan takes.

Time of day

Night53%
Day34%
Golden hour8%

Lighting

Low key49%
Natural37%
High key13%

Shot size

Medium54%
Closeup22%
Wide14%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
Low angle13%
High angle6%

Mood

Tense38%
Neutral37%
Chaotic13%
Ominous6%

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 147 frames from Ioan Gruffudd'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.