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Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan

2 films · 218 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19391943

Born 1 June 1890 · New York City, New York, USA · died 18 September 1949

Frank Morgan was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz. His older brother Ralph Morgan was also an actor of stage and screen.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Morgan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 218 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19391943

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame1960

How their films are shot

Measured across 218 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Frank takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 61% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Frank takes.

Time of day

Day61%
Night34%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key36%
High key16%

Shot size

Medium50%
Wide18%
Closeup17%
Fullbody11%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle8%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral51%
Tense25%
Ominous8%
Lonely7%

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 218 frames from Frank Morgan's 2 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.