FrameThrower · Actors · Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton
12 films · 739 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1984–2017
Born 17 May 1955 · Fort Worth, Texas, USA · died 25 February 2017
Bill Paxton was an American actor. He appeared in films including Aliens and Titanic and starred as practising polygamist Bill Henrickson in the HBO series Big Love. On February 25, 2017 he died from complications following heart surgery.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 739 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1984–2017
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture1996
How their films are shot
Measured across 739 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bill takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 58% of their frames are night, 55% low key — the look of the work Bill 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.
Twister
1996 · Bill
Boxing Helena
1993 · Ray O'Malley
One False Move
1991 · Dale "Hurricane" Dixon
The Circle
2017 · Vinnie Holland
Nightcrawler
2014 · Joe Loder
Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · Master Sergeant Farell
Haywire
2011 · John Kane
Titanic
1997 · Brock Lovett
True Lies
1994 · Simon
Near Dark
1987 · Severen
Aliens
1986 · Private Hudson
Streets of Fire
1984 · Clyde the Bartender
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 739 frames from Bill Paxton's 12 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.