FrameThrower · Actors · Jack MacGowran
Jack MacGowran
5 films · 321 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1966–1973
Born 13 October 1918 · Dublin, Ireland · died 30 January 1973
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Joseph "Jack" MacGowran was an Irish character actor, whose last film role was as the alcoholic director Burke Dennings in The Exorcist. He was probably best known for his work with Samuel Beckett.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 321 frames from the 5 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 5 films we hold, 58% of their frames are night, 50% 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.
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 321 frames from Jack MacGowran'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.