FrameThrower · Actors · Mark Patton
Mark Patton
2 films · 112 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1982–1985
Born 22 September 1958 · Riverside, Missouri, USA
Mark Patton is an American interior designer and former actor. Patton grew up in Riverside, Missouri and, after graduating high school, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Within a few years he landed the role of Joe Qualley in the 1982 Broadway production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Patton reprised the role in the 1982 film of the same name. In 1985 Patton landed the lead role in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge portraying Jesse Walsh, a teen whose body becomes possessed by Freddy Krueger.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 112 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mark takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 63% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Mark takes.
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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 112 frames from Mark Patton's 2 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.