FrameThrower · Actors · Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
7 films · 646 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1969–2022
Born 30 April 1926 · Des Moines, Iowa, USA · died 27 January 2021
Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.
Leachman's breakthrough role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom in the landmark CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–75), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1974 and 1975; its spin-off, Phyllis (1975–77), earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 646 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1969–2022
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1972
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role1973
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series2006
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series2002
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series1998
- Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program1975
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series1975
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series1974
- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming1983
- Golden Plate Award1970
- Theatre World Award1951
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 646 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cloris takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Cloris 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 646 frames from Cloris Leachman's 7 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.