FrameThrower · Actors · David Warner
David Warner
8 films · 500 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1970–2001
Born 29 July 1941 · Manchester, England, UK · died 24 July 2022
David Hattersley Warner was an English actor. Born in Manchester, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s through his lead performance in the Karel Reisz film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Warner portrayed both romantic leads and villainous characters across a range of media, including The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, The Omen, Holocaust, The Thirty Nine Steps, Time After Time, Time Bandits, Tron, A Christmas Carol, Portrait in Evil, Titanic, Mary Poppins Returns and various characters in the…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 500 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1970–2001
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1981
- Theatre World Award2002
- Saturn Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 500 frames from the 8 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 8 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 61% low key — the look of the work David 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 500 frames from David Warner's 8 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.