FrameThrower · Actors · Will Patton
Will Patton
9 films · 555 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2023
Born 14 June 1954 · Charleston, South Carolina, USA
William Rankin Patton is an American actor and audiobook narrator. He starred as Colonel Dan Weaver in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies. He also appeared in the films Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds and The Punisher. He appeared opposite Kevin Costner in two films: No Way Out (1987) and The Postman (1997). He won two Obie Awards for best actor in Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love and the Public Theater production of What Did He See?.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 555 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2023
- Audie Award for Best Male Narrator
How their films are shot
Measured across 555 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Will takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Will takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 555 frames from Will Patton's 9 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.