FrameThrower · Actors · Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon
2 films · 115 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2020–2020
Born 24 October 1966 · Denver, Colorado, USA
Zahn McClarnon is an American film and television actor of Native American and Irish descent. He's best known for his roles as Joe Leaphorn on AMC's series Dark Winds (in which he was also an executive producer), Big on Hulu's series Reservation Dogs, Yvon on NatGeo's miniseries Barkskins, Tulimak in the film Togo, Crow Daddy in Doctor Sleep, Hallett in the film Braven, Toshaway in AMC's The Son, The Professor in the film Bone Tomahawk, Akecheta on Westworld, Hanzee Dent on the series Fargo, Officer Mathias on A&E's Longmire, Running Fox on TNT's miniseries Into the West, and Little Big Man in the film Crazy Horse.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 115 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2020–2020
- American Indian Film Festival2015
- Western Heritage Award2006
- First Americans in the Arts2006
- First Americans in the Arts1996
How their films are shot
Measured across 115 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Zahn takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 68% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Zahn 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 115 frames from Zahn McClarnon's 2 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.