FrameThrower · Actors · Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1955–1982
Born 16 March 1926 · Newark, New Jersey, USA · died 20 August 2017
Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1955–1982
- Honorary Member of the Order of Australia2013
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Trustees Award2010
- Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award2009
- New Jersey Hall of Fame2009
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 113 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jerry 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, 41% of their frames are night, 48% high key — the look of the work Jerry takes.
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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 113 frames from Jerry Lewis'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.