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Taylor Lautner

Taylor Lautner

5 films · 308 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20082012

Born 11 February 1992 · Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Taylor Daniel Lautner is an American actor and model. He is best known for playing shapeshifter Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series.

Lautner began his acting career playing bit parts in comedy series such as The Bernie Mac Show (2003) and My Wife and Kids (2004), before having voice roles in television series like What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2005) and Danny Phantom (2005). In 2005, he appeared in the film Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and starred in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D. He also starred in the 2011 action film Abduction.

From 2014 to 2018, Lautner starred in the BBC sitcom Cuckoo as the son of the titular character. In 2016, he played a leading role, Dr.

How their films are shot

Measured across 308 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Taylor takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Taylor takes.

Time of day

Day53%
Night39%
Interior5%

Lighting

Natural52%
Low key41%
High key6%

Shot size

Medium38%
Wide26%
Closeup25%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral61%
Tense20%
Ominous9%
Lonely7%

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 308 frames from Taylor Lautner's 5 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.