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Kyle Chandler

Kyle Chandler

11 films · 776 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20052021

Born 17 September 1965 · Buffalo, New York, USA

Kyle Martin Chandler is an American actor. He received critical acclaim for his performance as Eric Taylor in the NBC series Friday Night Lights(2006–2011), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011.

Making his screen acting debut in the 1988 television film Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story, Chandler's first regular television role was in the ABC drama Homefront (1991–1993). This was followed by the lead role of Gary Hobson in the series Early Edition (1996–2000).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 776 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20052021

  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2011
  • Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television1997

How their films are shot

Measured across 776 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kyle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 11 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Kyle takes.

Time of day

Night52%
Day39%
Golden hour4%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key52%
Natural33%
High key8%
Silhouette6%

Shot size

Medium41%
Wide24%
Closeup24%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
Low angle8%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense21%
Lonely9%
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 776 frames from Kyle Chandler's 11 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.