FrameThrower · Actors · Melinda Dillon
Melinda Dillon
4 films · 258 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1999
Born 13 October 1939 · Hope, Arkansas, USA · died 9 January 2023
Melinda Rose Dillon was a twice Oscar nominated American actress. She was best known for her roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Absence of Malice and the holiday classic A Christmas Story.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 258 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1999
- Theatre World Award1963
How their films are shot
Measured across 258 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Melinda 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, 52% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Melinda takes.
Time of day
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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 258 frames from Melinda Dillon'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.