FrameThrower · Actors · Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan
3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1984–2024
Born 20 August 1971 · Saigon, Vietnam [now Ho Chi Minh City]
Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is an American actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award.
Born in Vietnam, Quan immigrated to the United States as a child. As a child actor, he rose to fame playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Data in The Goonies (1985).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1984–2024
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2023
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture2023
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role2022
How their films are shot
Measured across 188 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ke 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, 50% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Ke 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.
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 188 frames from Ke Huy Quan'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.