FrameThrower · Actors · Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels
12 films · 761 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1986–2016
Born 19 February 1955 · Athens, Georgia, USA
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates.
He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 761 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1986–2016
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2018
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2013
How their films are shot
Measured across 761 frames from the 12 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 12 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night, 45% natural — 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.
The Squid and the Whale
2005 · Bernard Berkman
Radio Days
1987 · Biff Baxter
Heartburn
1986 · Richard
Something Wild
1986 · Charles Driggs
Allegiant
2016 · David
The Martian
2015 · Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
Steve Jobs
2015 · John Sculley
Looper
2012 · Abe
Away We Go
2009 · Jerry Farlander
Good Night And Good Luck
2005 · Sig Mickelson
Pleasantville
1998 · Mr. Johnson
Speed
1994 · Harry
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 761 frames from Jeff Daniels's 12 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.