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Pam Grier

Pam Grier

5 films · 512 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19742001

Born 26 May 1949 · Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Pamela Suzette Grier is an American actress. Described by director Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation, and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 512 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19742001

  • Time Machine Award2018

How their films are shot

Measured across 512 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Pam takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 66% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Pam takes.

Time of day

Night66%
Day25%
Interior8%

Lighting

Low key57%
Natural28%
High key11%

Shot size

Medium56%
Closeup20%
Wide14%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle8%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral47%
Tense29%
Ominous12%
Mysterious4%

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 512 frames from Pam Grier's 5 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.