FrameThrower · Actors · Gerrit Graham
Gerrit Graham
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1974–1990
Born 27 November 1949 · New York City, New York, USA
Gerrit Graham is an American actor and songwriter. He's appeared in such films as Used Cars, TerrorVision, National Lampoon's Class Reunion, and Greetings, where he worked with Brian DePalma for the first time. He would again work with DePalma on Hi, Mom and Home Movies, as well as The Phantom of the Paradise, where he played Beef, the Alice Cooper-inspired rock star.
He has also appeared in two different roles on the Star Trek television series; as the Hunter of Tosk on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as a member of the Q Continuum (adopting the name Quinn) in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Death Wish."
He was also the voice of Franklin Sherman in the animated series and has written songs with Bob Weir of Ratdog.
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gerrit takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Gerrit 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 260 frames from Gerrit Graham's 4 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.