FrameThrower · Actors · John Gallagher Jr.
John Gallagher Jr.
5 films · 264 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2013–2020
Born 17 June 1984 · Wilmington, Delaware, USA
John Howard Gallagher Jr. is an American actor and musician known for originating the role of Moritz Stiefel in Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's rock musical Spring Awakening, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He also played Johnny in Green Day's Broadway musical, American Idiot, Lee in the 2011 Broadway production of Jerusalem, and Edmund in the 2016 Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. He portrayed Jim Harper in Aaron Sorkin's drama series The Newsroom, starred in the HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge, and played Emmett DeWitt in 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 264 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2013–2020
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical2007
How their films are shot
Measured across 264 frames from the 5 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 5 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 63% low key — the look of the work John takes.
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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 264 frames from John Gallagher Jr.'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.