FrameThrower · Actors · Denholm Elliott
Denholm Elliott
4 films · 268 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1989
Born 31 May 1922 · Ealing, London, England, UK · died 6 October 1992
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE was an English actor of stage and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits. In the 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 268 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1989
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role1986
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role1985
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role1984
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Donaldson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 268 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Denholm takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Denholm takes.
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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 268 frames from Denholm Elliott's 4 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.