FrameThrower · Actors · Preston Foster
Preston Foster
2 films · 89 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1932–1951
Born 22 August 1900 · Pitman, New Jersey, USA · died 14 July 1970
Preston Foster was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley. Some of his notable films include: Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Annie Oakley (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (also 1935), The Informer (1935) (as the head of the organization), and My Friend Flicka (1943).
He starred on the television drama, Waterfront (1954–1955), playing the role of Captain John Herrick. Foster has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 89 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1932–1951
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 89 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Preston takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 87% of their frames are night, 79% low key — the look of the work Preston 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 89 frames from Preston Foster's 2 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.