FrameThrower · Actors · Cheech Marin
Cheech Marin
5 films · 311 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1985–2024
Born 13 July 1946 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin is an American comedian and actor. He gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez, on Nash Bridges. Marin has also voiced characters in several Disney films, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, The Lion King 1½, the Cars franchise, Coco, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Marin's trademark is his characters' strong Chicano accents.
How their films are shot
Measured across 311 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cheech 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, 63% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Cheech takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 311 frames from Cheech Marin'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.