FrameThrower · Actors · Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff
3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2010–2023
Born 29 July 1973 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. is an American actor. Starting his film career as a child, appearing in the cult horror film The Gate (1987), Dorff first rose to prominence playing Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat (1994) and then gained further mainstream attention for portraying Deacon Frost in Blade (1998). Other notable lead roles include Bob Rafelson's Blood and Wine (1997), the titular character in John Waters' Cecil B.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2010–2023
- MTV Movie Award for Best Villain1999
How their films are shot
Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stephen 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, 52% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Stephen takes.
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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 194 frames from Stephen Dorff'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.