FrameThrower · Actors · Jeff Daniel Phillips
Jeff Daniel Phillips
5 films · 294 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2013–2022
Born 3 July 1968 · Westwood, New Jersey, USA
He is best known for playing a caveman in a popular series of GEICO commercials. He played the part of Maurice in the short-lived Cavemen sitcom on ABC. Other credits to him are Hide (2003), for which he was the director, producer, and co-author in addition to being a cast member; parts in Sneakers and Rob Zombie's Halloween II as Uncle Seymour, The Lords of Salem and 31; and roles in TV series Flaked, Arrest and Trial, Philly, and Profiler. He appeared in the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as David Angar, the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Angar the Screamer.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 294 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jeff takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 74% of their frames are night, 63% low key — the look of the work Jeff 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.
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 294 frames from Jeff Daniel Phillips's 5 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.