FrameThrower · Actors · Wendell Pierce
Wendell Pierce
6 films · 525 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1995–2020
Born 8 December 1963 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Wendell Edward Pierce is an American actor and businessman. Having trained at Juilliard School, Pierce rose to prominence as a character actor portraying roles on both stage and screen. He first gained recognition portraying the role of Detective Bunk Moreland in the acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire from 2002 to 2008.
His other notable television roles include the trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme (2010–2013), James Greer in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018–2023), the attorney Robert Zane in Suits (2013–2019), and Clarence Thomas in Confirmation (2016).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 525 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Wendell takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Wendell 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 525 frames from Wendell Pierce's 6 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.