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Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny

6 films · 550 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19992024

Born 13 July 1962 · Syracuse, New York, USA

Thomas James "Tom" Kenny is an American actor and comedian, known for his long-running-role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the television series of the same name, as well as the live-action character Patchy the Pirate, Gary the Snail and the French narrator based on Jacques Cousteau. His other voice acting roles include the Narrator and Mayor in the Powerpuff Girls, Heffer in Rocko's Modern Life, Dog in CatDog, Ice King in Adventure Time and Spyro in the Spyro the Dragon video game series. Aside from voice acting, Kenny also starred in the short-lived Fox sketch show The Edge and was a cast member of the HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show, where he worked with Jill Talley, whom he subsequently married. He also hosted Friday Night Videos on NBC for one year in 1983, and Funday Night at the Movies on TCM in 2007.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 550 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19992024

  • Outer Critics Circle Award

How their films are shot

Measured across 550 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tom 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, 42% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Tom takes.

Time of day

Day42%
Night28%
Interior27%

Lighting

Natural55%
High key29%
Low key14%

Shot size

Medium61%
Wide15%
Closeup12%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level74%
Low angle14%
High angle11%

Mood

Neutral64%
Chaotic18%
Joyful5%
Tense5%

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 550 frames from Tom Kenny'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.