FrameThrower · Actors · Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens
5 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1985–2009
Born 27 August 1952 · Peekskill, New York, USA · died 30 July 2023
Paul Reubens was an American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982 he began appearing in a show about a character he had been developing for years. The show, called The Pee-wee Herman Show, ran for five sold-out months, and HBO produced a successful special about it.
Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and, for the next decade, Reubens was completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1985–2009
- Daytime Emmy Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 389 frames from the 5 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 5 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Paul takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 Reubens'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.