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Keith Carradine

Keith Carradine

10 films · 740 frames · top-billed in 5 · 19712024

Born 8 August 1949 · San Mateo, California, USA

Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor. In film, he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's Nashville, E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Mickey in Alan Rudolph's Choose Me. On television, he is known for his roles as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO series Deadwood, FBI agent Frank Lundy on the Showtime series Dexter, Lou Solverson in the first season of FX's Fargo, Penny's father Wyatt on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, and U.S. President Conrad Dalton on the CBS political drama Madam Secretary.

He is a member of the Carradine family of actors, which began with his father, John Carradine.

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Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 740 frames · top-billed in 5 · 19712024

  • Academy Award for Best Original Song1976
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song1976
  • Ellis Island Medal of Honor
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 740 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Keith takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Keith takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night41%
Interior5%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key43%
High key6%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium55%
Wide21%
Closeup14%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level93%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral68%
Tense14%
Lonely10%

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 740 frames from Keith Carradine's 10 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.