FrameThrower · Actors · John Lone
John Lone
3 films · 219 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2001
Born 13 October 1952 · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
John "Johnny" Lone is a Hong Kong born American actor of Chinese and English descent. Lone has played roles as diverse as a caveman in Iceman (1984), the last Emperor of China in The Last Emperor (1987), and an apparently female opera performer in M. Butterfly (1993).
Was a member of Madame Fan Fok-Fa's The Spring And Autumn Drama School's Peking Opera.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 219 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 49% 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 219 frames from John Lone'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.