FrameThrower · Actors · Sharlto Copley
Sharlto Copley
10 films · 627 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2009–2024
Born 27 November 1973 · Johannesburg, South Africa
Sharlto Copley is a South African producer, actor, and director who has produced and co-directed short films which have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos. He is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Wikus van der Merwe in the Oscar-nominated science fiction film District 9 and H. M. Murdock in the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 627 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sharlto 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, 47% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Sharlto takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 627 frames from Sharlto Copley'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.