FrameThrower · Actors · Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison
7 films · 567 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1984–2023
Born 28 June 1946 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bruce Allen Davison is an American actor and director. He portrayed Senator Robert Kelly in X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003). Davison is also well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film Willard (1971), his Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance in Longtime Companion (1989), and as Thomas Semmes in the HBO original movie Vendetta.
His other notable film roles are as Grandpa in Black Beauty (2015), Brig. Gen. Bill Marks in High Crimes, Durwood Cable in Runaway Jury, Dr.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 567 frames from the 7 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 7 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 51% 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 567 frames from Bruce Davison's 7 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.