FrameThrower · Actors · Mercedes McCambridge
Mercedes McCambridge
4 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1954–2018
Born 16 March 1916 · Joliet, Illinois, U.S. · died 2 March 2004
Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge was an American actress. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress". She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ¨All the King's Men¨ (1949) and was nominated in the same category for ¨Giant¨ (1956). She also provided the voice of the demon ¨Pazuzu¨ in ¨The Exorcist¨ (1973).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1954–2018
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1950
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 246 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mercedes 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, 59% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Mercedes 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.
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 246 frames from Mercedes McCambridge'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.