FrameThrower · Actors · Paul Walter Hauser
Paul Walter Hauser
5 films · 254 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2017–2025
Born 15 October 1986 · Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Paul Walter Hauser is an American actor and wrestler. He is best known for portraying Stingray in the Netflix series Cobra Kai and providing the voice of Embarrassment in Pixar's Inside Out 2 (2024). He played supporting roles in the films Super Troopers 2 (2018), Beats (2019), Adam (2020), Cruella (2021) and Old Dads (2023). In 2019, Hauser had his breakout performance as the title character in Clint Eastwood's drama film Richard Jewell. Hauser starred as murderer Larry Hall in the 2022 miniseries Black Bird, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. As an occasional professional wrestler, Hauser is signed to Major League Wrestling.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 254 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2017–2025
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film2022
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie2023
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Supporting Actor2023
- National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance2019
How their films are shot
Measured across 254 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Paul takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Paul takes.
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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 254 frames from Paul Walter Hauser's 5 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.