FrameThrower · Actors · Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson
22 films · 1,564 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1995–2024
Born 29 March 1955 · Dublin, Ireland
Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson.
He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 22 films · 1,564 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1995–2024
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2009
- Emmy Award2009
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,564 frames from the 22 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brendan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 22 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Brendan takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Joker: Folie à Deux
2024 · Jackie Sullivan
The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 · Colm Doherty
Hampstead
2017 · Donald Horner
Live By Night
2016 · Thomas Coughlin
Song of the Sea
2014 · Conor / Mac Lir (voice)
Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · General Brigham
Calvary
2014 · Father James Lavelle
Breakfast On Pluto
2005 · John Joe Kenny
28 Days Later
2002 · Frank
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Duncan
Paddington 2
2017 · Knuckles McGinty
Assassin’s Creed
2016 · Joseph Lynch
In The Heart of the Sea
2014 · Old Thomas Nickerson
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
2012 · The Pirate with Gout (voice)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
Troy
2004 · Menelaos
The Village
2004 · August Nicholson
Cold Mountain
2003 · Stobrod Thewes
Gangs of New York
2002 · Walter 'Monk' McGinn
Mission: Impossible II
2000 · McCloy
Michael Collins
1996 · Liam Tobin
Braveheart
1995 · Hamish Campbell
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,564 frames from Brendan Gleeson's 22 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.