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Temuera Morrison

Temuera Morrison

9 films · 774 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20022026

Born 26 December 1960 · Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand

Temuera Derek Morrison is a New Zealand actor. He has become one of the country's most famous stars for his roles as the abusive Jake "the Muss" Heke in 1994's Once Were Warriors and as bounty hunter Jango Fett and the Clone Troopers in the Star Wars series. He also voiced Boba Fett in the 2004 special edition of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 774 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20022026

  • New Zealand Order of Merit1996

How their films are shot

Measured across 774 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Temuera takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 9 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Temuera takes.

Time of day

Night48%
Day36%
Golden hour9%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key47%
Natural39%
High key8%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium41%
Wide24%
Closeup20%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
Low angle11%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral39%
Tense26%
Ominous11%
Mysterious10%

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 774 frames from Temuera Morrison's 9 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.