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Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames

17 films · 942 frames · top-billed in 7 · 19882025

Born 12 May 1959 · New York City, New York, USA

Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. He is best known for portraying IMF Agent Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series (1996–present) and crime boss Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction (1994).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 942 frames · top-billed in 7 · 19882025

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film1998

How their films are shot

Measured across 942 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ving takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 17 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Ving takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day38%
Interior7%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key45%
Natural35%
High key15%

Shot size

Medium47%
Closeup23%
Wide21%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level75%
Low angle13%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral49%
Tense31%
Ominous7%
Lonely4%

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 942 frames from Ving Rhames's 17 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.