FrameThrower · Actors · Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–1991
Born 11 November 1955 · Englewood, New Jersey, USA · died 14 August 2014
Stephen Lee was born in Englewood, New Jersey in 1955. Having lived in Europe the first 15 years of his life Stephen comes from a casino background. His father selling and making slot machines. Stephen started acting when he came to the U.S in 1970 and eventually getting a partial scholarship to Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri. He has appeared in over 200 TV shows, 5 TV series and over 20 pilots. He has also played in 39 movies including: La Bamba (1987), WarGames (1983), Purple Hearts (1984), RoboCop 2 (1990), The Negotiator (1998), Dolls (1987) and many others. He speaks English, German, French and Spanish.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stephen 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, 77% of their frames are night, 65% low key — the look of the work Stephen 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 130 frames from Stephen Lee'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.