FrameThrower · Actors · Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy
3 films · 452 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1959–1987
Born 1 May 1919 · Wexford, Ireland · died 17 February 2005
Daniel Peter O'Herlihy was an Irish film actor, known for such roles as Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black in Fail Safe, Marshal Ney in Waterloo, Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, "The Old Man" in RoboCop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1954 film Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
How their films are shot
Measured across 452 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 65% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work Dan 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 452 frames from Dan O'Herlihy'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.