FrameThrower · Actors · Gig Young
Gig Young
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1962–1974
Born 4 November 1913 · Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA · died 19 October 1978
Gig Young was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come Fill the Cup (1952) and Teacher's Pet (1959), before winning for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1962–1974
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1970
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gig 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, 67% natural — the look of the work Gig 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 130 frames from Gig Young'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.