FrameThrower · Actors · Martin Donovan
Martin Donovan
11 films · 892 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1998–2021
Born 19 August 1957 · Reseda, California, USA
Martin Donovan is an American stage and film actor. He has had a long collaboration with the director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, including Trust (1990), Surviving Desire (1991), Simple Men (1992), Flirt (1993), Amateur (1994), and The Book of Life (1998) (in which he played Jesus). He is best known as Peter Scottson, the DEA agent on Showtime's Weeds. He made his Writing and Directorial debut in 2011 with the film Collaborator, which he stars in with David Morse.
How their films are shot
Measured across 892 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Martin 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, 50% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Martin takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Haunting in Connecticut
2009 · Peter Campbell
Wind Chill
2007 · Highway Patrolman
Redemption Day
2021 · Tom Fitzgerald
Tenet
2020 · Fay
Come To Daddy
2019 · Brian
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
2018 · Commissioner Nyari
Sabotage
2014 · Floyd Demel
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2012 · Douglas Cartland
Insomnia
2002 · Hap Eckhart
When Trumpets Fade
1998 · Captain Pritchett
Living Out Loud
1998 · Robert Nelson
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 892 frames from Martin Donovan'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.