FrameThrower · Actors · Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson
5 films · 316 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1950–1972
Born 13 June 1918 · Foraker, Shidler, Oklahoma, USA · died 8 April 1996
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Ben "Son" Johnson, Jr. was an American motion picture actor who was mainly cast in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 316 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1950–1972
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1972
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture1972
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role1973
- National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor1972
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor1972
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 316 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ben 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, 64% of their frames are day, 57% natural — the look of the work Ben 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 316 frames from Ben Johnson'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.