FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard
12 films · 847 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1999–2022
Born 7 March 1971 · Belleville, Illinois, USA
John Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. His first feature role was in Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cry (1999) as John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film The Center of the World.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 847 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1999–2022
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor2023
How their films are shot
Measured across 847 frames from the 12 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 12 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 43% low key — 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.
The Lie
2018 · Jay Logan
Jackie
2016 · Robert Kennedy
Experimenter
2015 · Stanley Milgram
Pawn Sacrifice
2014 · Father Bill Lombardy
Night Moves
2013 · Harmon
Green Lantern
2011 · Hector Hammond
Boys Don’t Cry
1999 · John Lotter
The Sound of Silence
· Peter Lucian
Jarhead
· Alan Troy
The Batman
2022 · District Attorney Gil Colson
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
2016 · Bartholomew Bogue
Year Of The Dog
2007 · Newt
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 847 frames from Peter Sarsgaard's 12 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.