FrameThrower · Actors · Claude Dauphin
Claude Dauphin
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1976
Born 19 August 1903 · Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne, France · died 16 November 1978
Claude Dauphin was a French actor. He appeared in over 130 films between 1930 and 1978.
He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole. Claude Dauphin died in Paris.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1976
- Donaldson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 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 night, 45% low key — 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 195 frames from Claude Dauphin'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.