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Kenny Baker

Kenny Baker

3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19771981

Born 24 August 1934 · Birmingham, England, UK · died 13 August 2016

Kenneth George "Kenny" Baker was a British actor and musician, best known as the man inside R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series.

How their films are shot

Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kenny 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, 49% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Kenny takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day29%
Interior16%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Low key54%
Natural28%
High key10%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Wide37%
Medium33%
Establishing12%
Closeup12%

Camera angle

Eye level77%
Low angle14%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral54%
Tense23%
Ominous10%
Lonely6%

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 195 frames from Kenny Baker'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.