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Richard Kind

Richard Kind

3 films · 171 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20032015

Born 22 November 1956 · North Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Richard Bruce Kind is an American actor (stage, screen, and voice) and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Captain Stan Yenko on CBS's East New York (2022-23), Dr. Mark Devanow on Mad About You (1992–1999, 2019), and Paul Lassiter on Spin City (1996–2002). He's also well known for his other roles as Peter in The History of the World Part II (2023), Mitch on Netflix's The Watcher, Formica Michael Mikowitz on The Goldbergs, Walter Bloom in tick, tick... Boom!

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 171 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20032015

  • Jeff Awards2003

How their films are shot

Measured across 171 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Richard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Richard takes.

Time of day

Day56%
Night25%
Interior16%

Lighting

Natural51%
High key24%
Low key23%

Shot size

Wide36%
Medium33%
Closeup18%
Fullbody10%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
High angle13%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral80%
Lonely9%
Tense5%

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 171 frames from Richard Kind's 3 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.