FrameThrower · Actors · Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly
2 films · 171 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2003–2012
Born 24 November 1942 · Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Billy Connolly is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist. In the early 1970s he made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to fully-fledged comedian, a role in which he continues. He also became an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal (1993); Mrs.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 171 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2003–2012
- British Academy Scotland Awards2012
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Chortle Awards
- Knight Bachelor
How their films are shot
Measured across 171 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Billy 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, 60% of their frames are day, 63% natural — the look of the work Billy 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 171 frames from Billy Connolly'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.