FrameThrower · Actors · Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum
9 films · 524 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1947–1995
Born 6 August 1917 · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA · died 1 July 1997
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. He was ranked #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 524 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1947–1995
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award1992
- Donostia Award1993
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 524 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 40% natural — the look of the work Robert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Ryan’s Daughter
1970 · Charles
Secret Ceremony
1968 · Albert
What A Way To Go!
1964 · Rod Anderson Jr.
The Night Of The Hunter
1955 · Preacher Harry Powell
River of No Return
1954 · Matt Calder
Out of the Past
1947 · Jeff Bailey / Jeff Markham
Dead Man
1995 · John Dickinson
Cape Fear
1991 · Lieutenant Elgart
Scrooged
1988 · Preston Rhinelander
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 524 frames from Robert Mitchum's 9 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.