FrameThrower · Actors · Michael McElhatton
Michael McElhatton
2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2015–2016
Born 12 September 1963 · Terenure, Dublin, Ireland
Michael McElhatton is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for playing the role of Roose Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He joined the series as a guest star in the second season, and continued to play this role until the sixth season, promoted to a regular cast member from the fifth season onwards.
How their films are shot
Measured across 126 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 67% of their frames are night, 68% low key — 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 126 frames from Michael McElhatton'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.