FrameThrower · Actors · Thomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell
3 films · 419 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1939–1952
Born 10 July 1892 · Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA · died 17 December 1962
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Mitchell was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life. Mitchell was the first person to win an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 419 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1939–1952
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1940
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical1953
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 419 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Thomas takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night — the look of the work Thomas 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 419 frames from Thomas Mitchell's 3 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.