FrameThrower · Actors · Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott
4 films · 258 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1993–2018
Born 9 August 1944 · Sacramento, California, USA
Samuel Pack Elliott is an American actor. His rangy physique, thick horseshoe mustache, and deep, resonant voice (with a Western twang/drawl) match the iconic image of a cowboy or rancher, and he has often been cast in such roles.
How their films are shot
Measured across 258 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sam 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, 52% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Sam takes.
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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 258 frames from Sam Elliott'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.