FrameThrower · Actors · Bernard Miles
Bernard Miles
2 films · 118 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1942–1956
Born 27 September 1907 · Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK · died 14 June 1991
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Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959, the first new theatre opened in the City of London since the 17th century.
Miles was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex and attended Bishopshalt School in Hillingdon. While his parents were respectively a farm labourer and a cook, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He entered the theatre in the 1930s, soon appearing in films. Like many actors, he featured prominently in the patriotic cinema during the Second World War, including classics of the genre such as In Which We Serve and One of Our Aircraft Is Missing.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 118 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1942–1956
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Knight Bachelor
How their films are shot
Measured across 118 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bernard 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, 46% of their frames are day, 41% low key — the look of the work Bernard 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 118 frames from Bernard Miles'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.