FrameThrower · Actors · Charles Durning
Charles Durning
5 films · 391 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1973–2000
Born 28 February 1923 · Highland Falls, New York, USA · died 24 December 2012
Charles Edward Durning was an American actor. He best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), True Confessions (1981), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor two times: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1983).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 391 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1973–2000
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1990
- Legion of Honour
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor2006
- Drama League Award
- Bronze Star Medal
- Purple Heart
- Silver Star
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 391 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charles takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Charles 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 391 frames from Charles Durning's 5 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.