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Kevin James

Kevin James

10 films · 1,082 frames · top-billed in 6 · 20062025

Born 26 April 1965 · Mineola, New York, USA

Kevin George Knipfing, known professionally as Kevin James, is an American actor and writer. James began his career as a stand-up comedian on Long Island in the late 1980s before rising to prominence for playing Doug Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007), for which he received the nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006.

In 2004, James made his first film appearance in 50 First Dates, and the following year co-starred in Hitch. He went on to star in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Grown Ups (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), and Pixels (2015).

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,082 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kevin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 46% natural — the look of the work Kevin takes.

Time of day

Night50%
Day37%
Interior7%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Natural46%
Low key35%
High key19%

Shot size

Medium60%
Wide15%
Closeup13%
Fullbody10%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle6%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral54%
Tense17%
Mysterious7%
Ominous6%

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 1,082 frames from Kevin James's 10 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.