FrameThrower · Actors · David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer
5 films · 463 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1998–2021
Born 2 November 1966 · New York City, New York, USA
David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor and director of television and film. He was born in New York, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was two. He began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. For much of the late-1980s, he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling, unemployed actor.
He appeared in the television movie A Deadly Silence in 1989. He then appeared in a number of television roles, including L.A.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 463 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work David takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night, 46% natural — the look of the work David takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 463 frames from David Schwimmer's 5 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.