FrameThrower · Actors · Jack Carson
Jack Carson
2 films · 204 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1954–1957
Born 27 October 1910 · Carman, Manitoba, Canada · died 2 January 1963
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John Elmer "Jack" Carson was a Canadian-born, American film actor, with a film career spanning the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Though he was primarily used in supporting roles for comic relief, his work in films such as Mildred Pierce (1945) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) displayed his mastery of "straight" dramatic actor roles as well. He worked for RKO and MGM (cast opposite Myrna Loy and William Powell in Love Crazy), but most of his memorable work was for Warner Bros. His trademark character was the wisecracking know-it-all, typically and inevitably undone by his own smug cockiness.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 204 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1954–1957
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 204 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jack 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, 50% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Jack 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 204 frames from Jack Carson'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.