FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Weller
Peter Weller
5 films · 559 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1984–2013
Born 24 June 1947 · Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
Peter Frederick Weller is an American film and stage actor, director and lecturer.
He is best known for his roles as the title character in the first two RoboCop films and Buckaroo Banzai in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He received an Academy Award nomination for his direction for the 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. He also hosted the show Engineering an Empire on the History channel. He played Stan Liddy in the 5th Season of the Showtime original series, Dexter.
How their films are shot
Measured across 559 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peter 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, 55% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Peter 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 559 frames from Peter Weller'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.