FrameThrower · Actors · Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
16 films · 1,132 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1989–2019
Born 1 June 1937 · Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series The Electric Company.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 16 films · 1,132 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1989–2019
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2005
- Golden Globe Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Silver Bear
- National Medal of Arts2015
- AFI Life Achievement Award2011
- Kennedy Center Honors
- Clarence Derwent Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,132 frames from the 16 films we hold. This is the look of the work Morgan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 16 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Morgan 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 Poison Rose
2019 · Doc
Lucy
2014 · Professor Norman
Oblivion
2013 · Beech
Wanted
2008 · Sloan
Amistad
1997 · Theodore Joadson
Se7en
1995 · Somerset
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Unforgiven
1992 · Ned Logan
Driving Miss Daisy
1989 · Hoke Colburn
Now You See Me 2
2016 · Thaddeus Bradley
Ted 2
2015 · Patrick Meighan
Transcendence
2014 · Joseph Tagger
Now You See Me
2013 · Thaddeus Bradley
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Fox
The Dark Knight
2008 · Lucius Fox
March of the Penguins
2005 · Narrator
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 1,132 frames from Morgan Freeman's 16 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.