FrameThrower · Actors · Delroy Lindo
Delroy Lindo
10 films · 667 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1990–2025
Born 18 November 1952 · Eltham, London, England, UK
Delroy George Lindo is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), Rodney Little in Clockers (1995), and Paul, a Vietnam War veteran, in Da 5 Bloods (2020), the latter of which earned him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 667 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Delroy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Delroy 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 667 frames from Delroy Lindo's 10 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.