FrameThrower · Actors · Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine
2 films · 131 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2012
Born 22 March 1959 · Loma Linda, California, USA
Matthew Avery Modine is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's film Streamers (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980s, including Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), and Married to the Mob (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine James T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).
Other notable films include Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Oppenheimer (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 131 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2012
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2017
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor1983
How their films are shot
Measured across 131 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matthew 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, 55% of their frames are day, 41% natural — the look of the work Matthew 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 131 frames from Matthew Modine'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.