FrameThrower · Actors · Terry Alexander
Terry Alexander
2 films · 272 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1985–1997
Born 23 March 1943 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Terry Alexander is an African American actor, who is best known for his role as John in George A. Romero's 1985 film Day of the Dead. He had a regular role on the soap opera One Life to Live in the early 1990s, as police chief Troy Nichols. Wikipedia
How their films are shot
Measured across 272 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Terry 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, 55% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Terry takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 272 frames from Terry Alexander'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.