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Édith Scob

Édith Scob

7 films · 424 frames · top-billed in 5 · 19602016

Born 21 October 1937 · Paris, France · died 26 June 2019

Édith Scob was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in Eyes Without a Face (1960).

Scob was born Édith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine, the granddaughter of a Russian Army general and White Russian émigré. Her father was an architect and her mother a journalist. Her elder brother, Michel Scob (1935–1995), was a French cycling champion and Olympian. At age 14, she underwent treatment for anorexia. Her love of literature inspired an interest in theatre.

How their films are shot

Measured across 424 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Édith 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, 48% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Édith takes.

Time of day

Night48%
Day44%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key42%
Natural40%
High key9%
Chiaroscuro6%

Shot size

Medium39%
Wide25%
Closeup19%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
High angle8%
Low angle7%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense14%
Lonely11%
Ominous5%

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 424 frames from Édith Scob'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.