FrameThrower · Actors · Catriona MacColl
Catriona MacColl
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1980–1981
Born 3 October 1954 · London, England
Catriona MacColl is an English actress and former ballerina. She was initially a ballerina who trained at a top ballet school in England before suffering an injury that abruptly curtailed her burgeoning career as a dancer. In the wake of said injury Catriona joined a repertory company which eventually led to her moving to Paris, France where she acted in French television shows and played her first lead role as the titular character in Lady Oscar (1979).
She gained cinema popularity by playing the female leads in three gruesome and atmospheric Italian horror films directed by Lucio Fulci: City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981), and The House by the Cemetery (1981).
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Catriona 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, 66% of their frames are night, 58% low key — the look of the work Catriona takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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 195 frames from Catriona MacColl'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.