FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Kenneth Williams
Michael Kenneth Williams
7 films · 528 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2019
Born 22 November 1966 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · died 6 September 2021
Michael Kenneth Williams was an American actor. He played Omar Little on the HBO drama series The Wire from 2002 to 2008 and Albert "Chalky" White on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire from 2010 to 2014. Williams was raised in the Vanderveer Projects in East Flatbush, Brooklyn and attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School. Later, Williams enrolled at the National Black Theatre in New York City.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 528 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2019
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2012
- Critics' Choice Television Award2021
How their films are shot
Measured across 528 frames from the 7 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 7 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Michael 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.
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 528 frames from Michael Kenneth Williams's 7 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.