FrameThrower · Actors · Teri Garr
Teri Garr
5 films · 285 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1974–2005
Born 11 December 1944 · Lakewood, Ohio, USA · died 29 October 2024
Teri Ann Garr was an American actress, dancer and singer. She frequently appeared in comedic roles throughout her career, which spanned four decades and includes over 140 credits in film and television. Her accolades include one Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA Award nomination, and one National Board of Review Award.
Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Garr was raised in North Hollywood. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumer mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in six Elvis Presley musicals.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 285 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Teri takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 73% of their frames are night, 66% low key — the look of the work Teri takes.
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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 285 frames from Teri Garr's 5 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.