FrameThrower · Actors · Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks
5 films · 327 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–2014
Born 22 July 1947 · Beverly Hills, California, USA
Albert Lawrence Einstein, known professionally as Albert Brooks, is an American actor and filmmaker. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's Broadcast News and was widely praised for his performance as a ruthless Jewish mobster in the 2011 action drama film Drive. Brooks has also played in Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), and My First Mister (2001). He has written, directed, and starred in several comedy films, such as Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 327 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Albert 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, 48% of their frames are day, 46% low key — the look of the work Albert takes.
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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 327 frames from Albert Brooks'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.