FrameThrower · Actors · Dee Wallace
Dee Wallace
8 films · 539 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1981–2022
Born 14 December 1948 · Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Dee Wallace is an American actress and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for her roles in several popular films. These include the starring role as Elliot's mother in the Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), her most widely seen role. She also played key roles in popular cult films The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and The Howling (1981) and appeared in The Stepford Wives in 1975 and 10 (1979). In total, Wallace has appeared in more than 85 films.
How their films are shot
Measured across 539 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dee 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, 69% of their frames are night, 64% low key — the look of the work Dee 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 539 frames from Dee Wallace'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.