FrameThrower · Actors · Brigitte Fossey
Brigitte Fossey
3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1979
Born 15 June 1946 · Tourcoing, Nord, France
Brigitte Florence Fossey is a French actress.
The daughter of a schoolteacher, Fossey was five years old when she was cast by director René Clément to star in his film, Forbidden Games. Fossey played the role of an innocent child orphaned by World War II. The film won numerous awards worldwide, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Fossey was hired by American actor/director Gene Kelly for his 1957 film, The Happy Road. When Fossey was ten years old her parents took her out of the film business so she could receive proper schooling.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brigitte takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Brigitte 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 194 frames from Brigitte Fossey's 3 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.