FrameThrower · Actors · Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell
7 films · 422 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–2015
Born 5 March 1936 · North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA · died 7 November 2021
Robert Dean Stockwell was an American film, television and stage actor with a career spanning over 70 years. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he first came to the public's attention in films including Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), and Kim (1950). As a young adult, he had a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptation of Compulsion; and in 1962 he played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day's Journey into Night, for which he won two Best Actor Awards at the Cannes Film Festival.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 422 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–2015
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 422 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dean takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Dean 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.
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 422 frames from Dean Stockwell's 7 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.