FrameThrower · Actors · Dick Powell
Dick Powell
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1933–1952
Born 14 November 1904 · Mountain View, Arkansas, USA · died 2 January 1963
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.
Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest. He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s.
Powell moved to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Master of Ceremonies at the Enright Theater and the Stanley Theater. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought up Brunswick Records which at that time owned Vocalion. Warner Bros.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1933–1952
- Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame1996
- Trustees Award1963
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dick 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, 60% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Dick 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 195 frames from Dick Powell'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.