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Irma P. Hall

Irma P. Hall

5 films · 340 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19962009

Born 3 June 1935 · Beaumont, Texas, USA

​Irma P. Hall is an American film and television actress, best known for playing matriarchal figures in feature films like "A Family Thing", "Soul Food", and "The Ladykillers".

How their films are shot

Measured across 340 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Irma takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Irma takes.

Time of day

Day53%
Night43%

Lighting

Natural50%
Low key41%
High key7%

Shot size

Medium48%
Wide23%
Closeup16%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
Low angle11%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral63%
Tense21%
Lonely8%
Ominous5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 340 frames from Irma P. Hall's 5 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.