FrameThrower · Actors · Stephen McKinley Henderson
Stephen McKinley Henderson
7 films · 578 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2025
Born 31 August 1949 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American actor. He is best known for playing Omar York in the television drama, New Amsterdam, which ran for one season in 2008. His notable film roles include portraying Arthur in Everyday People (2004), Lester in Tower Heist (2011), Father Leviatch in Lady Bird (2017), and Thufir Hawat in Dune (2021).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 578 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2025
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement2023
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play2015
How their films are shot
Measured across 578 frames from the 7 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 7 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Stephen 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 578 frames from Stephen McKinley Henderson's 7 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.