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Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson

5 films · 388 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19542024

Born 17 November 1925 · Winnetka, Illinois, USA · died 2 October 1985

Rock Hudson was an American actor. One of the most popular movie stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades. A prominent heartthrob in the Golden Age of Hollywood, he achieved stardom with his role in Magnificent Obsession (1954), followed by All That Heaven Allows (1955), and Giant (1956), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hudson also found continued success with a string of romantic comedies co-starring Doris Day: Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). During the late 1960s, his films included Seconds (1966), Tobruk (1967), and Ice Station Zebra (1968).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 388 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19542024

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 388 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rock 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, 47% of their frames are day — the look of the work Rock takes.

Time of day

Day47%
Night39%
Interior12%

Lighting

Natural37%
Low key30%
High key27%
Chiaroscuro4%

Shot size

Medium56%
Closeup18%
Wide16%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
Low angle8%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral73%
Tense15%
Lonely4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 388 frames from Rock Hudson'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.