FrameThrower · Actors · Charles Southwood
Charles Southwood
2 films · 83 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1970–1981
Born 30 August 1937 · Los Angeles, California, USA · died 8 April 2009
Charles Southwood born Charles Allen Southwood August 30, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, died April 8, 2009 in Grants Pass, Oregon was an American actor in Europe and the founder of Death Cigarettes.
Born in Los Angeles in 1937, his family moved to Oregon at the end of World War II. He earned a degree in philosophy at Oregon State University.
He travelled to Europe where he worked at a variety of jobs before becoming a stand in for Lex Barker on Woman Times Seven in 1966. He was spotted by an agent who led him into lead roles in spaghetti westerns.
Returning to Oregon, he came up with the idea of "Death Cigarettes" in 1991.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 83 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, 72% of their frames are day, 66% 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 83 frames from Charles Southwood'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.