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Jake Johnson

Jake Johnson

3 films · 463 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20152023

Born 28 May 1978 · Evanston, Illinois, USA

Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger is an American actor. He starred as Nick Miller in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011–2018), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2013. He has also voiced a version of Spider-Man in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its 2023 sequel.

Johnson has also starred in Let's Be Cops (2014), and appeared in Paper Heart (2009), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), 21 Jump Street (2012), Jurassic World (2015), The Mummy (2017), and Tag (2018). From 2022 to 2023, he starred in the comedy series Minx. In 2023, he made his directorial debut with Self Reliance.

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How their films are shot

Measured across 463 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jake 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, 58% of their frames are night — the look of the work Jake takes.

Time of day

Night58%
Day30%
Interior6%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key34%
High key31%
Natural24%
Chiaroscuro6%

Shot size

Medium38%
Wide35%
Closeup15%
Fullbody10%

Camera angle

Eye level64%
Low angle21%
High angle12%

Mood

Neutral44%
Tense25%
Chaotic18%
Ominous8%

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 463 frames from Jake Johnson'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.