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Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

4 films · 257 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19872002

Born 22 June 1958 · Birmingham, Michigan, USA

Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known best for being Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series, beginning with the short movie Within the Woods (1978). He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).

Campbell had the main roles in the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993–1994) and Jack of All Trades (2000), and a recurring role as Autolycus, King of Thieves in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–1999).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 257 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19872002

  • Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television

How their films are shot

Measured across 257 frames from the 4 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 4 films we hold, 64% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Bruce takes.

Time of day

Night64%
Day27%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key59%
Natural23%
High key8%
Silhouette7%

Shot size

Closeup34%
Medium28%
Wide21%
Fullbody10%

Camera angle

Eye level63%
Low angle21%
High angle12%

Mood

Neutral39%
Tense28%
Ominous19%
Horrific6%

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 257 frames from Bruce Campbell's 4 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.