FrameThrower · Actors · Bill Pullman
Bill Pullman
11 films · 925 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1996–2019
Born 17 December 1953 · Hornell, New York, USA
William James Pullman is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre, he was an adjunct professor at Montana State University before deciding to pursue acting.
Pullman made his film debut in Ruthless People (1986), and starred in Spaceballs (1987), The Accidental Tourist and The Serpent and the Rainbow (both 1988), Newsies (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Independence Day (1996), Lost Highway (1997), and Lake Placid (1999). He also voiced Captain Joseph Korso in Titan A.E. (2000). He has also appeared frequently on television, usually in TV films.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 925 frames from the 11 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 11 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 48% natural — 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.
Surveillance
2008 · Sam Hallaway
Dear Wendy
2005 · Krugsby
Lost Highway
1997 · Fred Madison
Mistrial
1996 · Steve Donohue
Independence Day
1996 · President Thomas J. Whitmore
Dark Waters
2019 · Harry Dietzler
The Equalizer
2014 · Brian Plummer
Cymbeline
2014 · Sicilius Leonatus
The Killer Inside Me
2010 · Billy Boy Walker
Peacock
2010 · Edmund French
Igby Goes Down
2002 · Jason
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 925 frames from Bill Pullman's 11 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.