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Theo James

Theo James

5 films · 471 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20162025

Born 16 December 1984 · Oxford, England, UK

Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis is an English actor. He is known for portraying Tobias "Four" Eaton in The Divergent Series film trilogy. James starred in the horror films Underworld: Awakening (2012) and Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), the action film How It Ends (2018), and the science fiction film Archive (2020). In television, he appeared in the crime drama series Golden Boy (2012) and the romance series The Time Traveler's Wife (2022).

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How their films are shot

Measured across 471 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Theo 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, 66% of their frames are night, 65% low key — the look of the work Theo takes.

Time of day

Night66%
Day28%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key65%
Natural27%
High key5%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium50%
Closeup30%
Wide13%
Fullbody4%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle6%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral47%
Tense19%
Lonely12%
Mysterious11%

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 471 frames from Theo James'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.