FrameThrower · Actors · Randee Heller
Randee Heller
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–2024
Born 10 June 1947 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Randy M. 'Randee' Heller is an American television and film actress. Her most notable roles were in the film The Karate Kid and one of its sequels, as Daniel LaRusso's mother, and on the 1970s serial sitcom Soap as Jodie Dallas's roommate Alice, one of the first recurring lesbian characters in television history. She also had a starring role as Carol in the 1979 made-for-TV movie, Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze. She had a recurring role on the series Mad Men as Don Draper's elderly secretary Ida Blankenship.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Randee 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, 54% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Randee takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
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 130 frames from Randee Heller'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.