FrameThrower · Actors · Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern
14 films · 879 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1964–2019
Born 4 June 1936 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). His other major film appearances include Silent Running (1972), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), The Cowboys (1972), Posse (1975), Family Plot (1976), Black Sunday (1977), Tattoo (1981), Monster (2003), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 14 films · 879 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1964–2019
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor2013
- Silver Bear for Best Actor1983
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2010
How their films are shot
Measured across 879 frames from the 14 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 14 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Bruce 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.
Nebraska
2013 · Woody Grant
Twixt
2011 · Sheriff Bobby LaGrange
The Driver
1978 · The Detective
Coming Home
1978 · Capt. Bob Hyde
Family Plot
1976 · George Lumley
Silent Running
1972 · Freeman Lowell
The Trip
1967 · John
The King Of Marvin Gardens
· Jason Staebler
The Peanut Butter Falcon
2019 · Carl
Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
2019 · George Spahn
The Hateful Eight
2015 · General Sandy Smithers
Down In The Valley
2005 · Charlie
The Haunting
1999 · Mr. Dudley
Marnie
1964 · Sailor
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 879 frames from Bruce Dern's 14 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.