FrameThrower · Actors · Linda Manz
Linda Manz
3 films · 172 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1978–1980
Born 20 August 1961 · New York, New York, U.S.A. · died 14 August 2020
Linda Manz made her feature film debut at age 15 in Terrence Malick's period drama Days of Heaven (1978), playing an adolescent girl growing up in rural Texas in 1916. She followed this with a supporting role in The Wanderers (1979). Manz earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of a troubled teenage girl from a dysfunctional family in Dennis Hopper's drama film Out of the Blue (1980).
Manz stepped away from her acting profession in the mid-1980s and relocated to Southern California, where she lived outside the public eye and focused on raising her three children. She returned to acting in 1997 with small roles in Harmony Korine's film Gummo and David Fincher's thriller The Game. She developed a strong cult following than began in the 1990s.
How their films are shot
Measured across 172 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Linda 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, 43% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Linda takes.
Time of day
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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 172 frames from Linda Manz'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.