FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Biehn
Michael Biehn
7 films · 587 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1984–2007
Born 31 July 1956 · Anniston, Alabama, USA
Michael Connell Biehn is an American actor whose work in 1980s and 1990s genre cinema helped define the modern action and science-fiction lead. He is most closely associated with James Cameron’s films, where he repeatedly embodied hardened, battle-tested characters grounded in realism rather than spectacle, most famously Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984), Corporal Hicks in Aliens (1986), and Lieutenant Coffey in The Abyss (1989).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 587 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1984–2007
- Time Machine Award2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 587 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 67% of their frames are night, 62% low key — the look of the work Michael takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 587 frames from Michael Biehn's 7 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.