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Thomas Lennon

Thomas Lennon

6 films · 689 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20002024

Born 9 August 1970 · Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Thomas Patrick Lennon is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. Andrei Novak on Santa Clarita Diet and Felix Unger on The Odd Couple. He is the screenwriter of several comedies released by major film studios with writing partner Robert Ben Garant. They wrote the Night at the Museum films, The Pacifier, Balls of Fury, and Baywatch

Lennon was born on August 9, 1970 in Oak Park, Illinois. Of Irish and Scottish descent, he is the son of Kathleen (née McSheehy) and Timothy Lennon.

How their films are shot

Measured across 689 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Thomas takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 6 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 48% natural — the look of the work Thomas takes.

Time of day

Night48%
Day37%
Interior11%

Lighting

Natural48%
Low key31%
High key19%

Shot size

Medium63%
Closeup20%
Wide10%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level88%
High angle6%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense17%
Chaotic5%
Lonely4%

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 689 frames from Thomas Lennon's 6 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.