FrameThrower · Actors · Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser
3 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1986–2014
Born 30 March 1956 · New York City, New York, USA
Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, television writer, and musician. He is known for his roles as Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Modell in the 1982 film Diner, Carter Burke in the 1986 film Aliens, as Detective Jeffrey Friedman in Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). More recently, Reiser is recognized as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film Whiplash and Doug Getty in the Amazon Video series Red Oaks.
How their films are shot
Measured across 389 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Paul 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, 58% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Paul 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 389 frames from Paul Reiser'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.