FrameThrower · Actors · James Coburn
James Coburn
5 films · 450 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1959–2001
Born 31 August 1928 · Laurel, Nebraska, USA · died 18 November 2002
James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 450 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1959–2001
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1999
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame1994
How their films are shot
Measured across 450 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work James 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, 56% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work James 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 450 frames from James Coburn'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.