FrameThrower · Actors · Charles Grodin
Charles Grodin
2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2017
Born 21 April 1935 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · died 18 May 2021
Charles Sidney Grodin was an American actor, comedian, author, and television talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including The Virginian. After a small part in Rosemary's Baby in 1968, he played the lead in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and supporting roles in Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970), the 1976 remake of King Kong, and Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait (1978).
Known for his deadpan delivery and often cast as a put-upon straight man, Grodin became familiar as a supporting actor in many Hollywood comedies of the era, including Real Life (1979), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Ishtar (1987), Dave (1993),…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2017
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
How their films are shot
Measured across 124 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 63% of their frames are day, 60% natural — the look of the work Charles 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 124 frames from Charles Grodin's 2 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.