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David Selby

David Selby

2 films · 201 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20122012

Born 5 February 1941 · Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

David Lynn Selby is an American character and stage actor. He has worked in movies, soap operas and television. The naturally black-headed Selby is best known for playing the roles of Quentin Collins on the ABC-TV serial, Dark Shadows (a role he played from 1968 to its ending in 1971 and again in the recent audio revival), and as the evil and compassionate estranged son of Angela Channing (played by Jane Wyman), Richard Channing, on the primetime CBS soap opera Falcon Crest (a role he played from 1982 to 1990).

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How their films are shot

Measured across 201 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 70% of their frames are night, 65% low key — the look of the work David takes.

Time of day

Night70%
Day20%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key65%
Natural23%
Silhouette6%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium51%
Wide21%
Closeup17%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level70%
Low angle17%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral45%
Tense27%
Ominous16%
Lonely5%

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 201 frames from David Selby's 2 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.