FrameThrower · Actors · Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn
4 films · 228 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1950–1982
Born 30 December 1934 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Russell Irving "Russ" Tamblyn is an American film and television actor, who is arguably best known for his performance in the 1961 movie musical West Side Story as Riff, the leader of the Jets gang.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 228 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Russ takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 63% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Russ 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 228 frames from Russ Tamblyn's 4 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.