FrameThrower · Actors · Cliff Gorman
Cliff Gorman
2 films · 132 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1979–1999
Born 13 October 1936 · Queens, New York City, New York, USA · died 5 September 2002
Cliff Gorman was an American stage and screen actor. He won an Obie award in 1968 for the stage presentation of The Boys in the Band, and went on to reprise his role in the 1970 film version.
Gorman and his wife cared for his fellow The Boys in the Band cast member Robert La Tourneaux in the last few months of his battle against AIDS, until La Tourneaux's death on June 3, 1986
Gorman died of leukemia in 2002, aged 65, although his final film, Kill the Poor, was not released until 2003. He was survived by his wife, Gayle Gorman.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 132 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1979–1999
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1972
How their films are shot
Measured across 132 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cliff 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, 45% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Cliff 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 132 frames from Cliff Gorman'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.