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William Jackson Harper

William Jackson Harper

5 films · 354 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20162023

Born 8 February 1980 · Dallas, Texas, USA

William Jackson Harper, is an American actor. He portrayed Chidi Anagonye on the NBC comedy The Good Place (2016–2020).

How their films are shot

Measured across 354 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work William 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, 47% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work William takes.

Time of day

Night47%
Day45%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key46%
Natural40%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium45%
Wide27%
Closeup14%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral60%
Tense17%
Lonely8%
Ominous7%

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 354 frames from William Jackson Harper'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.