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Victor Jory

Victor Jory

2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19621973

Born 23 November 1902 · Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada · died 12 February 1982

Victor Jory was a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Jonas Wilkerson, the brutal and opportunistic overseer, in "Gone with the Wind", and as Lamont Cranston, aka 'The Shadow', in the 1942 serial film "The Shadow".

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19621973

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 126 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Victor 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, 57% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Victor takes.

Time of day

Day57%
Night41%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key37%
Chiaroscuro8%
High key6%

Shot size

Medium48%
Wide23%
Closeup13%
Establishing9%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
High angle10%
Low angle8%

Mood

Neutral53%
Tense25%
Lonely10%
Oppressive5%

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 126 frames from Victor Jory'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.