FrameThrower · Actors · Dan Hedaya
Dan Hedaya
8 films · 517 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1983–2001
Born 24 July 1940 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dan Hedaya is an American actor. While a student at Tufts University, he began performing at the campus theater. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals; two of his best-known roles are as a cuckolded husband in the Coen brothers' crime thriller Blood Simple, and the scheming Nick Tortelli on the sitcom Cheers.
How their films are shot
Measured across 517 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 63% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Dan takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 517 frames from Dan Hedaya's 8 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.