FrameThrower · Actors · Claude Rains
Claude Rains
7 films · 439 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1933–1946
Born 10 November 1889 · Clapham, London, England, UK · died 30 May 1967
Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years; he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man (1933), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and, perhaps his most famous performance, Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942).
Rains was born William Claude Rains in Camberwell, London on November 10, 1889. He grew up, according to his daughter, with "a very serious cockney accent and a speech impediment".…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 439 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1933–1946
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1951
- Donaldson Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 439 frames from the 7 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 7 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Claude 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.
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 439 frames from Claude Rains's 7 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.