FrameThrower · Actors · Claude Brasseur
Claude Brasseur
3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–1985
Born 15 June 1936 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France · died 22 December 2020
Claude Brasseur was a French actor.
Claude Brasseur was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine as Claude Pierre Espinasse, the son of actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux. He was the godson of Ernest Hemingway and the father of Alexandre Brasseur.
He was a member of the French bobsleigh team in the 1960s and a winning Paris-Dakar rally competitor as co-pilot of Jacky Ickx.
From the late 1950s until two years before his death, Brasseur appeared in overall 150 film and television productions. One of his film roles was as Arthur in Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part (1964). Brasseur played the title role in the early 1970s historical crime television series The New Adventures of Vidocq.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–1985
- César Award for Best Actor1980
- César Award for Best Supporting Actor1977
- Officer of the National Order of Merit2016
- Officer of the Legion of Honour2016
- Knight of the Legion of Honour2008
- Knight of the National Order of Merit2004
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 192 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Claude 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, 50% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Claude 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 192 frames from Claude Brasseur'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.