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John Magaro

John Magaro

7 films · 487 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20152023

Born 16 February 1983 · Akron, Ohio, U.S.

John Robert Magaro is an American actor. He has acted in the films Not Fade Away (2012), The Big Short (2015), Carol (2015), Overlord (2018), First Cow (2019), Showing Up (2022), The Mistress (2022), and Past Lives (2023). He has also acted in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2015–2019), The Umbrella Academy (2019) and the Amazon series Crisis in Six Scenes (2016). He made his Broadway debut as Earl Williams, the escaped convict, in the revival of The Front Page in 2016

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How their films are shot

Measured across 487 frames from the 7 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 7 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work John takes.

Time of day

Night52%
Day41%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key51%
Natural42%
High key4%

Shot size

Medium57%
Wide18%
Closeup17%
Fullbody4%

Camera angle

Eye level93%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral58%
Tense21%
Lonely12%
Ominous4%

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 487 frames from John Magaro's 7 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.