FrameThrower · Actors · Richard Farnsworth
Richard Farnsworth
2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1990–1999
Born 1 September 1920 · Los Angeles, California, USA · died 6 October 2000
Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He is best known for his performances in Comes a Horseman (1978), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor; The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama; Anne of Green Gables (1985); Misery (1990); and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1990–1999
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 129 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Richard 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, 46% of their frames are day, 58% natural — the look of the work Richard takes.
Time of day
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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 129 frames from Richard Farnsworth'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.