FrameThrower · Actors · Ernie Hudson
Ernie Hudson
6 films · 472 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–2021
Born 17 December 1945 · Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
Earnest Lee Hudson is an American actor. He is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters franchise. Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Crow (1994), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995), Miss Congeniality (2000), and The Ron Clark Story (2006).
His most prominent role on television was Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz (1997–2003). Hudson has also appeared in the television shows St.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 472 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ernie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Ernie 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 472 frames from Ernie Hudson's 6 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.