FrameThrower · Actors · John Carradine
John Carradine
6 films · 461 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1940–1981
Born 5 February 1906 · New York, États-Unis · died 27 November 1988
John Carradine was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre. In the later decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies, but continued to also appear in higher-profile fare.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 461 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1940–1981
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award1983
- Daytime Emmy Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 461 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work John takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 461 frames from John Carradine's 6 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.