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Tom McCamus

Tom McCamus

3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19972015

Born 25 July 1955 · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Tom McCamus is a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for his work as the villainous Mason Eckhart on the science-fiction television series "Mutant X", for his award winning performances in the feature films "I Love a Man in Uniform" and "Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story", and for his supporting role in the Academy Award nominated drama "Room". He holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19972015

  • Dora Mavor Moore Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 195 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 47% low key — the look of the work Tom takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night44%

Lighting

Low key47%
Natural46%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium38%
Wide31%
Closeup23%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle7%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral67%
Lonely19%
Tense9%

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 195 frames from Tom McCamus's 3 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.