FrameThrower · Actors · Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal
4 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1951–1963
Born 20 January 1926 · Packard, Kentucky, USA · died 8 August 2010
Patricia Neal was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1951–1963
- Academy Award for Best Actress1964
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama1972
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role1966
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role1964
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play1947
- Theatre World Award1947
- Donaldson Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Patricia 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, 49% of their frames are night — the look of the work Patricia 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 195 frames from Patricia Neal'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.