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Jeffrey Tambor

Jeffrey Tambor

9 films · 603 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20002017

Born 8 July 1944 · San Francisco, California, USA

Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 603 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20002017

  • Golden Globe Awards2015
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series2016
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series2015
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Satellite Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 603 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jeffrey takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 9 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night, 41% natural — the look of the work Jeffrey takes.

Time of day

Night43%
Day38%
Interior14%

Lighting

Natural41%
Low key39%
High key16%

Shot size

Medium51%
Wide24%
Closeup12%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
High angle9%
Low angle9%

Mood

Neutral56%
Tense19%
Ominous10%
Chaotic5%

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 603 frames from Jeffrey Tambor's 9 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.