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Kim Coates

Kim Coates

4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19912016

Born 21 February 1958 · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Kim Coates is a Canadian actor who has worked in both Canadian and American movies and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Theatre. He starred as Tig Trager, sergeant-at-arms of the Sons of Anarchy, in the FX Network's drama series Sons of Anarchy.

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How their films are shot

Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kim takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Kim takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day39%
Interior6%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key48%
Natural31%
High key8%
Silhouette8%

Shot size

Medium40%
Wide26%
Closeup22%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level73%
Low angle18%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral41%
Tense35%
Ominous12%
Lonely5%

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 260 frames from Kim Coates's 4 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.