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Ryan Phillippe

Ryan Phillippe

2 films · 220 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20022010

Born 10 September 1974 · New Castle, Delaware, USA

Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor. After appearing as Billy Douglas on the soap opera One Life to Live (1992–1993) and making his feature film debut in Crimson Tide (1995), he came to prominence in the late 1990s with starring roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), 54 (1998), Playing by Heart (1998), and Cruel Intentions (1999).

Throughout the 2000s and beyond, he took on a range of roles in films such as The Way of the Gun (2000), Antitrust (2001), Gosford Park (2001), Igby Goes Down (2002), The I Inside (2003), Crash (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Breach (2007), Stop-Loss (2008), MacGruber (2010), The Bang Bang Club (2010), and The Lincoln

How their films are shot

Measured across 220 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ryan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 60% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Ryan takes.

Time of day

Day60%
Night32%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural51%
Low key26%
High key20%

Shot size

Medium48%
Closeup27%
Wide15%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level91%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral72%
Tense15%
Lonely6%
Ominous4%

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 220 frames from Ryan Phillippe's 2 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.