FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Franzén
Peter Franzén
2 films · 258 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2003–2023
Born 14 August 1971 · Keminmaa, Finland
Peter Vilhelm Franzén is a Finnish actor, author, screenwriter, and director.
As an actor, Franzén has appeared in over 50 films and TV series. For his role in Dog Nail Clipper (2004), Franzén was awarded a Jussi Award for Best Actor as well as earning praise from film critic Jay Weissberg from Variety magazine who called the actor "one of the most talented and versatile thesps in Finland".
In his career he has appeared in Finnish, Estonian, German, English, Swedish, and Hungarian speaking roles. In 2015, Franzén was cast as King Harald Finehair from the fourth season of Vikings. Franzén has also casted in Amazon Prime Video's upcoming The Wheel of Time TV series.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 258 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2003–2023
- Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland2013
- Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actor1999
How their films are shot
Measured across 258 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peter 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, 57% of their frames are day, 58% natural — the look of the work Peter 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 258 frames from Peter Franzén'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.