FrameThrower · Actors · Louis Calhern
Louis Calhern
3 films · 132 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1953
Born 18 February 1895 · Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA · died 12 May 1956
Carl Henry Vogt, known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. For portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s; the most notable being The Blot in 1921.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 132 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1953
- Donaldson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 132 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Louis 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, 52% of their frames are day — the look of the work Louis takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
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 132 frames from Louis Calhern'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.