FrameThrower · Actors · Howard Keel
Howard Keel
2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1950–1953
Born 13 April 1919 · Gillespie, Illinois, U.S. · died 7 November 2004
Harold Clifford Keel, known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991, as Clayton Farlow, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character, but to an earlier generation, he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made, with a rich baritone singing voice.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1950–1953
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 129 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Howard 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, 52% of their frames are day, 50% high key — the look of the work Howard 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 129 frames from Howard Keel'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.