FrameThrower · Actors · Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver
3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1958–1971
Born 4 June 1924 · Joplin, Missouri, USA · died 24 February 2006
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Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1958–1971
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series1959
- Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award1987
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 192 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, 57% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Dennis takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 192 frames from Dennis Weaver'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.