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John Getz

John Getz

4 films · 241 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19842016

Born 15 October 1946 · Davenport, Iowa, U.S.

​John Getz is an American actor. Getz dropped out of college to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. While working in a winery, he helped found the Theater Company in Napa County, California. His location in the grape-growing Napa Valley led to Getz's television debut in a made-for-television horror film Killer Bees. Killer Bees starred Gloria Swanson, Craig Stevens, Kate Jackson, and Edward Albert.

How their films are shot

Measured across 241 frames from the 4 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 4 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 58% low key — the look of the work John takes.

Time of day

Night59%
Day29%
Interior7%

Lighting

Low key58%
Natural34%
High key6%

Shot size

Medium49%
Closeup22%
Wide20%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
Low angle9%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense26%
Lonely10%
Ominous5%

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 241 frames from John Getz's 4 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.