FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Chiklis
Michael Chiklis
3 films · 345 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2013–2020
Born 30 August 1963 · Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Michael Charles Chiklis is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield (2002–2008), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2002 and was nominated in 2003.
Other starring television roles of his include Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama The Commish (1991–1996), Chris Woods in Daddio (2000), Jim Powell on the ABC science-fiction comedy-drama No Ordinary Family (2010–2011), Vincent Savino in the CBS crime drama Vegas (2012), Dell Toledo in American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014), and Nathaniel Barnes in Gotham (2015–2017).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 345 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2013–2020
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2002
How their films are shot
Measured across 345 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 50% natural — the look of the work Michael 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 345 frames from Michael Chiklis's 3 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.