FrameThrower · Actors · Clu Gulager
Clu Gulager
3 films · 193 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1971–2016
Born 16 November 1928 · Holdenville, Oklahoma, USA · died 5 August 2022
William Martin Gulager, known professionally as Clu Gulager, was an American television and film actor. He is particularly noted for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney (Billy The Kid) in the 1960–62 NBC TV series The Tall Man and for his role in the later NBC series The Virginian. He also appeared in the racing film Winning (1969), with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and was the protagonist, Burt, in the horror movie The Return of the Living Dead (1985). His final on-screen role was in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
How their films are shot
Measured across 193 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Clu takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Clu 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 193 frames from Clu Gulager's 3 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.