FrameThrower · Actors · Katherine Helmond
Katherine Helmond
4 films · 298 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1998
Born 5 July 1929 · Galveston, Texas, USA · died 23 February 2019
Katherine Marie Helmond was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director.
Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 298 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1998
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film1989
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy1981
How their films are shot
Measured across 298 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Katherine 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, 47% of their frames are day, 40% low key — the look of the work Katherine 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 298 frames from Katherine Helmond'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.