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Rafe Spall

Rafe Spall

10 films · 549 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20052019

Born 10 March 1983 · East Dulwich, London, England, UK

Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his roles in BBC's The Shadow Line, Channel 4's Pete versus Life, One Day, Anonymous, and the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. He played writer Yann Martel in the 2012 film Life of Pi.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 549 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20052019

  • Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award2017

How their films are shot

Measured across 549 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rafe takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Rafe takes.

Time of day

Night45%
Day42%
Golden hour6%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key46%
Natural43%
High key6%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium37%
Wide26%
Closeup24%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
Low angle9%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral52%
Tense23%
Lonely10%
Ominous8%

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 549 frames from Rafe Spall's 10 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.