FrameThrower · Actors · Bruce Abbott
Bruce Abbott
2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1985–1989
Born 28 July 1954 · Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Bruce Paul Abbott is an American actor. He has appeared in movies such as Re-Animator, Bad Dreams, The Prophecy II, Out of Time, and Bride of Re-Animator, and the TV series Dark Justice.
Abbott's career began as a dancer/actor in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, where he spent three seasons in the late 1970s. In 1980, Abbott relocated from Portland to Hollywood ("in the middle of the actors' strike, and I didn't know Anyone," he recalls). Shortly afterwards, he was cast as the villain in the movie Tag: The Assassination Game. He met his future (first) wife, Linda Hamilton on the set.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 125 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bruce takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 78% of their frames are night, 69% low key — the look of the work Bruce takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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 125 frames from Bruce Abbott's 2 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.