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Ron Perlman

Ron Perlman

16 films · 1,225 frames · top-billed in 7 · 19932023

Born 13 April 1950 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Ronald Perlman is an American actor and voice-over actor. His best known roles are as Clay Morrow on Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013), Hellboy in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Vincent on the series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990) for which he won a Golden Globe Award, Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Johner in Alien Resurrection (1997), Nino in Drive (2011), and Benedict Drask in Don't Look Up (2021).

Perlman is also known as a collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), Pacific Rim (2013) and Nightmare Alley (2021).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 16 films · 1,225 frames · top-billed in 7 · 19932023

  • Time Machine Award2018

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,225 frames from the 16 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ron takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 16 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 62% low key — the look of the work Ron takes.

Time of day

Night60%
Day22%
Interior13%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key62%
Natural24%
High key6%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium45%
Closeup23%
Wide21%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
Low angle11%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral38%
Tense27%
Ominous14%
Lonely9%

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 1,225 frames from Ron Perlman's 16 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.