FrameThrower · Actors · Everett McGill
Everett McGill
3 films · 281 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1980–1989
Born 21 October 1945 · Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Everett McGill is an American actor who was born in Miami Beach, Florida, on October 21, 1945. He is best known for his roles in the films Quest for Fire (1981), Dune (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Licence to Kill (1989), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). He also had a recurring role as "Big" Ed Hurley on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991).
McGill began his acting career on Broadway, appearing in the award-winning plays Equus, A Texas Trilogy, and Whose Life Is It, Anyway? He made his film debut in 1975 with a small role in the film The Day of the Locust.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 281 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Everett 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, 50% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Everett takes.
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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 281 frames from Everett McGill'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.