FrameThrower · Actors · Simon Baker
Simon Baker
4 films · 381 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2005–2011
Born 30 July 1969 · Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Simon Baker is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian.
In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name.
Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 381 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2005–2011
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2013
How their films are shot
Measured across 381 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Simon takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Simon 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 381 frames from Simon Baker's 4 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.