FrameThrower · Actors · Gary Cole
Gary Cole
6 films · 574 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1997–2022
Born 20 September 1956 · Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
Gary Michael Cole is an American stage and screen actor, best known for his supporting roles in numerous television and film productions such as Jack "Nighthawk" Killian in Midnight Caller or as Bill Lumbergh in Office Space.
In 1984, he played the lead role of Green Beret Army Officer Jeffrey MacDonald, along with Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint, in the true crime TV mini-series Fatal Vision, based on the book of the same name. Based on the real-life murders of the wife and daughters of U.S. Army officer Jeffrey R. MacDonald at Fort Bragg in 1970.
He landed the lead role on NCIS in 2021, taking over as the team's supervisor.
How their films are shot
Measured across 574 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gary 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, 49% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Gary 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 574 frames from Gary Cole'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.