FrameThrower · Actors · Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell
9 films · 777 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1981–2017
Born 17 March 1951 · Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 777 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1981–2017
- Disney Legends1998
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Sir
How their films are shot
Measured across 777 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kurt takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Kurt takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Hateful Eight
2015 · John 'The Hangman' Ruth
Tombstone
1993 · Wyatt Earp
Overboard
1987 · Dean Proffitt
Big Trouble in Little China
1986 · Jack Burton
The Thing
1982 · MacReady
Escape From New York
1981 · Snake Plissken
Death Proof
· Stuntman Mike
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017 · Ego
Furious 7
2015 · Mr. Nobody
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 777 frames from Kurt Russell's 9 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.