FrameThrower · Actors · Shirley Knight
Shirley Knight
2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1968–1969
Born 5 July 1936 · Goessel, Kansas, USA · died 22 April 2020
Shirley Enola Knight was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1968–1969
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series1995
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series1988
How their films are shot
Measured across 127 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Shirley 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, 58% of their frames are day, 61% natural — the look of the work Shirley takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 127 frames from Shirley Knight'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.