FrameThrower · Actors · Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
3 films · 181 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1961–1981
Born 15 February 1914 · Seattle, Washington, USA · died 11 September 2010
Kevin McCarthy was an American actor. He is best remembered as the male lead in the horror science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
Following several television guest roles, McCarthy gave his first credited film performance in Death of a Salesman (1951), portraying Biff Loman to Fredric March's Willy Loman. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
How their films are shot
Measured across 181 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kevin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Kevin takes.
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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 181 frames from Kevin McCarthy's 3 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.