FrameThrower · Actors · William Sadler
William Sadler
5 films · 403 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1991–1998
Born 13 April 1950 · Buffalo, New York, USA
William Thomas Sadler is an American actor who works in film and television. His television and motion picture roles have included Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller in The Pacific, Luther Sloan in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Sheriff Jim Valenti in Roswell, and—perhaps most notably—the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, a role for which he was nominated for, and won, the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his role as Colonel Stuart alongside Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 403 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1991–1998
- Clarence Derwent Awards
- Saturn Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 403 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work William takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work William 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 403 frames from William Sadler's 5 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.