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Alfie Bass

Alfie Bass

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19451967

Born 8 April 1921 · Bethnal Green, London, England, UK · died 15 July 1987

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Alfred Bass  was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children; their parents had fled persecution in Russia. He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio productions throughout his career.

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How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alfie 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, 84% of their frames are night, 66% low key — the look of the work Alfie takes.

Time of day

Night84%
Day12%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key66%
Natural16%
High key13%
Chiaroscuro5%

Shot size

Medium60%
Closeup20%
Wide15%

Camera angle

Eye level89%
High angle6%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense22%
Ominous10%
Lonely10%

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 130 frames from Alfie Bass'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.