FrameThrower · Actors · Blair Underwood
Blair Underwood
3 films · 230 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1996–2024
Born 25 August 1964 · Tacoma, Washington, USA
Blair Underwood is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years. He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and 1 Grammy Award.
His feature film debut was the 1985 movie Krush Groove. His 1985 appearance on The Cosby Show landed him a short stint on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, which eventually led to his performance on the TV series L.A.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 230 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1996–2024
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
How their films are shot
Measured across 230 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Blair 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, 41% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Blair 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 230 frames from Blair Underwood'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.