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Stuart Townsend

Stuart Townsend

2 films · 184 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19992003

Born 15 December 1972 · Howth, County Dublin, Ireland

Stuart Townsend is an Irish actor and director. His most notable portrayals are of the characters Lestat de Lioncourt in the 2002 film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, and Dorian Gray in the 2003 film adaptation of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Stuart Townsend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 184 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stuart 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, 78% of their frames are night, 61% low key — the look of the work Stuart takes.

Time of day

Night78%
Day16%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key61%
Natural30%
High key8%

Shot size

Medium55%
Closeup23%
Wide11%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level90%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral69%
Tense14%
Lonely9%
Mysterious5%

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 184 frames from Stuart Townsend'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.