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Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan

8 films · 454 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19942022

Born 2 November 1959 · Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

Peter Mullan is a Scottish stage, film and television actor and director, best known for playing supporting roles in feature films such as "Braveheart" and "Trainspotting", and for starring as the titular character Joe Kavanagh in "My Name Is Joe". He won a Golden Lion at 59th Venice International Film Festival for his direction of "The Magdalene Sisters".

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 454 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19942022

  • Golden Nymph for Outstanding Actor in a Mini Series2014

How their films are shot

Measured across 454 frames from the 8 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 8 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Peter takes.

Time of day

Day56%
Night33%

Lighting

Natural50%
Low key37%
High key6%
Silhouette6%

Shot size

Medium35%
Wide30%
Closeup19%
Establishing9%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
Low angle8%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral59%
Tense19%
Lonely12%
Ominous4%

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 454 frames from Peter Mullan's 8 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.