framethrowerSign up for free

FrameThrower · Actors · Thomas Turgoose

Thomas Turgoose

Thomas Turgoose

4 films · 241 frames · top-billed in 3 · 20062009

Born 11 February 1992 · Grimsby, England, UK

Thomas Aiden Turgoose is an English actor, best known for his role as Shaun Fields in the film This Is England (2006), a role he reprises in the This Is England TV series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011) and This Is England '90 (2015).

In his first film role in 2006, he played the lead character, Shaun Fields, in This Is England, written and directed by Shane Meadows. On television he played the character Dizzy, a young boy mentored by Adam Solomons (Luke Treadaway), in the 2006 BBC drama series The Innocence Project. The programme was cancelled after eight episodes due to poor ratings and negative reviews. Turgoose's character was in six of the eight episodes.

How their films are shot

Measured across 241 frames from the 4 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 4 films we hold, 63% of their frames are day, 67% natural — the look of the work Thomas takes.

Time of day

Day63%
Night25%
Golden hour6%

Lighting

Natural67%
Low key24%
High key6%

Shot size

Medium31%
Wide31%
Closeup22%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level91%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense14%
Lonely13%

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 241 frames from Thomas Turgoose's 4 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.