FrameThrower · Actors · Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance
4 films · 414 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2015
Born 12 March 1960 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Courtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. Vance started his career on the Broadway stage in the original productions of August Wilson's Fences in 1985, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1990 and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy in 2013 for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is known for his roles in films such as Hamburger Hill (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Preacher's Wife (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Isle of Dogs (2018).
Vance is also known for work on television on shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, where he portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 414 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2015
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2016
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play2013
- Theatre World Award1987
- Clarence Derwent Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 414 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Courtney takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Courtney 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 414 frames from Courtney B. Vance's 4 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.