FrameThrower · Actors · Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger
6 films · 647 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1965–1996
Born 14 April 1925 · Westhampton, New York, USA · died 9 July 2002
Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was a European-American actor known for his performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Oklahoma!, Waterloo, The Pawnbroker, On the Waterfront, The Harder They Fall, Doctor Zhivago, and Jesus of Nazareth.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 647 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1965–1996
- Academy Award for Best Actor1968
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1967
- Silver Bear for Best Actor1964
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor1969
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame1997
- Mary Pickford Award1996
How their films are shot
Measured across 647 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rod takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 58% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Rod 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 647 frames from Rod Steiger's 6 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.