FrameThrower · Actors · Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray
2 films · 109 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1944–1960
Born 30 August 1908 · Kankakee, Illinois, USA · died 5 November 1991
Fredrick Martin 'Fred' MacMurray was an American actor and musician. He was educated at Carroll College, Wisconsin, and played with a Chicago orchestra for more than a year. Then he joined an orchestra in Hollywood where he played, did some recording and played extra roles. He then joined a comedy stage band, California Collegians, and went to New York. There he joined "Three's A Crowd" revue on Broadway and on the road. After this show closed, he returned to California and worked in vaudeville. He played the vaudeville circuits and night clubs until cast for major role in "Roberta".…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 109 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1944–1960
- Disney Legends1987
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 109 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Fred 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, 58% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Fred 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 109 frames from Fred MacMurray'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.