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John Cusack
10 films · 797 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1988–2019
Born 28 June 1966 · Evanston, Illinois, USA
John Paul Cusack is an American actor. Cusack began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Better Off Dead (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). He then started appearing in independent films and had leading roles in Eight Men Out (1988), The Grifters (1990), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Serendipity (2001), Max (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003).
Cusack has been nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe for his role starring in High Fidelity.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 797 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1988–2019
- Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture1999
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 797 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work John 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.
Never Grow Old
2019 · Christopher 'Dutch' Albert
Love & Mercy
2014 · Brian Wilson 1980s
Adult World
2013 · Rat Billings
2012
2009 · Jackson Curtis
Max
2002 · Max Rothman
Being John Malkovich
1999 · Craig Schwartz
Eight Men Out
1988 · Buck Weaver
Chi-raq
2015 · Fr. Mike Corridan
Maps to the Stars
2014 · Dr. Stafford Weiss
The Thin Red Line
· Capt. John Gaff
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 797 frames from John Cusack's 10 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.