FrameThrower · Actors · Neal McDonough
Neal McDonough
4 films · 329 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2014
Born 13 February 1966 · Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
Neal McDonough was trained at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences. His theatre credits include 'Cheap Talk', 'Foreigner', 'As You Like It', 'Rivals', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Bald Soprano', and 'Waiting for Lefty'. The young actor won a 1991 Best Actor Dramalogue Award for 'Away Alone'. McDonough has been a 'Star Trek' fan since he was a kid. Playing Lieutenant Hawk in 'Star Trek First Contact' was a life-long dream. McDonough has three pictures on his bedroom wall. One is a picture of his mom, the other is the Holy Virgin Mary, and the third is William Shatner as Captain Kirk.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 329 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Neal takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Neal 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 329 frames from Neal McDonough's 4 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.