FrameThrower · Actors · Kal Penn
Kal Penn
3 films · 347 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2007
Born 23 April 1977 · Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Kalpen Suresh Modi is an American actor, author, comedian, and former White House staff member in the Obama administration. He is best known for his role as Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar movie franchise. He is also known for his roles as Lawrence Kutner on the television program House, White House staffer Seth Wright on Designated Survivor, Kevin in How I Met Your Mother and Nikhil Ganguli in the film The Namesake (2006). In early 2009, Penn was offered the position of Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, which he accepted, necessitating his character Lawrence Kutner being written out of the TV series House.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 347 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kal 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, 48% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work Kal 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 347 frames from Kal Penn'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.