FrameThrower · Actors · Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick
4 films · 276 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1983–2016
Born 21 March 1962 · New York City, New York, USA
Matthew Broderick is an American stage and screen actor. Broderick began acting in off-Broadway productions in the early 1980s, soon after landing a role in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, for which he won a Tony Award. His first screen role was in Max Dugan Returns (1983), also penned by Neil Simon. His breakout role came the same year for his role as a young hacker in WarGames. Later Broderick starred in the hit film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), making him a household name. Subsequent notable films include Glory (1989), The Lion King (1994), The Cable Guy (1996), Godzilla (1998), and Election (1999).
Broderick also continued acting on Broadway, including several musicals.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 276 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1983–2016
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical1995
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1983
- Hollywood Film Awards2005
- Theatre World Award1983
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 276 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matthew takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Matthew 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 276 frames from Matthew Broderick's 4 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.