FrameThrower · Actors · Buck Henry
Buck Henry
4 films · 226 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1967–1976
Born 9 December 1930 · New York City, New York, USA · died 8 January 2020
Buck Henry was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Henry's contributions to film included, his work as a co-director on Heaven Can Wait (1978) alongside Warren Beatty, and his work as a co-writer for Mike Nichols's The Graduate (1967) and Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972). His long career began on television with work on shows with Steve Allen in The New Steve Allen Show (1961). He went on to co-create Get Smart (1965-1970) with Mel Brooks, and hosted Saturday Night Live 10 times from 1976 to 1980.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 226 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1967–1976
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series1967
- Emmy Award
- Writers Guild of America Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 226 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Buck 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, 53% of their frames are day — the look of the work Buck takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
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 226 frames from Buck Henry'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.