FrameThrower · Actors · Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker
2 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–1987
Born 14 June 1919 · Chicago, Illinois, USA · died 18 December 1993
Sam Wanamaker, Private Benjamin (1989), and Baby Boom (1987).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–1987
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Benjamin Franklin Medal1989
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- Society of London Theatre Special Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 192 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 51% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Sam 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 192 frames from Sam Wanamaker's 2 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.