FrameThrower · Actors · John Dall
John Dall
2 films · 103 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1948–1950
Born 26 May 1920 · New York City, New York, USA · died 15 January 1971
John Dall was an American actor.
Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for two film roles; the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope, and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 noir Gun Crazy.
He first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Dall was born John Jenner Thompson in New York City, New York, the second son of Charles Jenner Thompson, a civil engineer, and his wife Henry (née Worthington). Dall died in Hollywood, California. Sources indicate he died of a heart attack.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 103 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night — the look of the work John takes.
Time of day
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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 103 frames from John Dall'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.