FrameThrower · Actors · John Malkovich
John Malkovich
15 films · 1,089 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1984–2023
Born 9 December 1953 · Christopher, Illinois, USA
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,089 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1984–2023
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1986
- Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
- Order of Danica Hrvatska
- Donostia Award1998
- Theatre World Award1983
- Clarence Derwent Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,089 frames from the 15 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 15 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work John takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Seneca: On The Creation Of Earthquakes
2023 · Seneca
One Ranger
2023 · Geddes
Bird Box
2018 · Douglas
Changeling
2008 · Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · F. W. Murnau
Being John Malkovich
1999 · John Horatio Malkovich
The Portait of a Lady
1996 · Gilbert Osmond
Of Mice and Men
1992 · Lennie Small
Making Mr. Right
1987 · Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Empire of the Sun
1987 · Basie
The Killing Fields
1984 · Al Rockoff
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019 · Piers
Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Dave (voice)
Burn After Reading
2008 · Osborne Cox
A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
2005 · Humma Kavula
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 1,089 frames from John Malkovich's 15 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.