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Michael J. Pollard

Michael J. Pollard

3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19671988

Born 30 May 1939 · Passaic, New Jersey, USA · died 20 November 2019

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael John Pollard was an American character actor, best known for playing C.W. Moss in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

How their films are shot

Measured across 194 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 43% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Michael takes.

Time of day

Day43%
Night42%
Interior8%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Natural48%
Low key40%
High key9%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide25%
Closeup21%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle8%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense18%
Lonely8%
Ominous4%

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 194 frames from Michael J. Pollard'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.