FrameThrower · Actors · Troy Donahue
Troy Donahue
2 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1964–1974
Born 27 January 1936 · New York City, New York, U.S. · died 2 September 2001
Troy Donahue was an American film and television actor and singer. He was a popular sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.
His father was Merle Johnson, the manager of the motion-picture department of General Motors. His mother, Edith Johnson, was a retired stage actress. Donahue attended a New York military academy, where he met Francis Ford Coppola. When Donahue was 18, he moved to New York and got a job as a messenger in a film company founded by his father. He was fired, he says, because he was too young to join the union. He attended Columbia University and studied journalism.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 187 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Troy 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, 81% of their frames are day, 81% natural — the look of the work Troy 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 187 frames from Troy Donahue'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.