FrameThrower · Actors · David Hemmings
David Hemmings
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1966–1975
Born 18 November 1941 · Guildford, Surrey, England, UK · died 3 December 2003
David Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer.
He is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Early in his career, Hemmings was a boy soprano appearing in operatic roles. In his later acting career, he was known for his distinctive eyebrows and gravelly voice.
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work David 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, 43% of their frames are night, 40% low key — the look of the work David takes.
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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 130 frames from David Hemmings'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.