FrameThrower · Actors · Claire Maurier
Claire Maurier
2 films · 131 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1959–2001
Born 27 March 1929 · Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France · died 3 May 2026
Claire Maurier was a French actress who appeared in more than 90 films since 1947.
Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, southwest of France.
She started her acting career in small film roles at the end of the 1940s. Her first 'main' role came when she portrayed Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut's 1959 film The 400 Blows. Another notable early role of hers was as Christiane Colombey, the bigamist wife of the main character in the 1963 film La Cuisine au beurre.
In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film La Cage aux Folles as Simone.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 131 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Claire 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, 52% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Claire takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
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 131 frames from Claire Maurier'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.