FrameThrower · Actors · Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
3 films · 171 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1973
Born 29 August 1912 · New York City, New York, USA · died 6 June 1994
Barry Sullivan was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) stature and rugged good looks he could "make money" simply standing on a Broadway stage. This began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television.
One of Sullivan's most memorable roles was playing a movie director in The Bad and the Beautiful opposite Kirk Douglas.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 171 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1973
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 171 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barry takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Barry 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 171 frames from Barry Sullivan's 3 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.