FrameThrower · Actors · Tony Curran
Tony Curran
5 films · 313 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2009
Born 13 December 1969 · Port Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Anthony "Tony" Curran is a Scottish actor.
Curran was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an alumnus of Holyrood Secondary School and is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Tony rose to fame in the BBC television series This Life. Since then, the Scots star has appeared in a number of major film and television roles.
Some of his roles have included The Invisible Man in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. To portray the Invisible Man, he donned a special suit that turned him into a walking bluescreen (according to his commentary on the DVD, he looked like a "smurf on acid").…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 313 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2009
- BAFTA Scotland2006
- British Independent Film Awards2006
How their films are shot
Measured across 313 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tony 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, 59% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Tony takes.
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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 313 frames from Tony Curran'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.