FrameThrower · Actors · Cary Grant
Cary Grant
5 films · 409 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1932–1982
Born 18 January 1904 · Horfield, Bristol, England, UK · died 29 November 1986
Cary Grant was a British-American actor, celebrated for his debonair charm, impeccable comic timing, and sophisticated screen presence. He became one of Hollywood’s most iconic leading men, starring in classics such as Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), Notorious (1946), and North by Northwest (1959).
Grant had a difficult childhood, marked by his mother’s institutionalization and his father’s alcoholism.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 409 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1932–1982
- Academy Awards1970
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor1960
- Kennedy Center Honors1981
- Academy Honorary Award1969
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 409 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cary takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night — the look of the work Cary takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 409 frames from Cary Grant's 5 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.