FrameThrower · Actors · Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray
2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1977–2011
Born 7 August 1911 · Galesville, Wisconsin, USA · died 16 June 1979
Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.
His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 124 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nicholas takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night, 44% natural — the look of the work Nicholas 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 124 frames from Nicholas Ray's 2 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.