FrameThrower · Actors · Scott Bakula
Scott Bakula
4 films · 449 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2023
Born 9 October 1954 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Scott Stewart Bakula is an American actor. He is known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise. Bakula also guest starred in seasons two and three of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father Stephen Bartowski.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 449 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2023
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama1992
How their films are shot
Measured across 449 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Scott 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, 50% of their frames are night, 40% low key — the look of the work Scott 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.
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 449 frames from Scott Bakula'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.