FrameThrower · Actors · Dennis Lipscomb
Dennis Lipscomb
3 films · 211 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1980–1986
Born 1 March 1942 · Westbury, New York, USA · died 30 July 2014
Dennis Lipscomb was an American actor.
Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City (1980). From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Love Child (1982), WarGames (1983), Eyes of Fire (1983), The Day After (1983), A Soldier's Story (1984), Crossroads (1986), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987), Retribution (1987), Sister, Sister (1987), The First Power (1990) and Under Siege (1992). Lipscomb also had a recurring role as mayor of the fictitious town of Sparta, Mississippi in the first season of In the Heat of the Night (1988).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 211 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dennis takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 50% natural — the look of the work Dennis takes.
Time of day
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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 211 frames from Dennis Lipscomb's 3 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.