FrameThrower · Actors · Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder
3 films · 175 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1967–1971
Born 11 June 1933 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA · died 29 August 2016
Gene Wilder was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter, and author.
He began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 175 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1967–1971
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series2003
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation1975
- Clarence Derwent Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 175 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gene 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, 61% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Gene takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 175 frames from Gene Wilder'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.