FrameThrower · Actors · Fernando Rey
Fernando Rey
5 films · 279 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1968–1979
Born 20 September 1917 · A Coruña, Galicia, Spain · died 9 March 1994
Fernando Rey — best known as Fernando Rey — was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel (Tristana, 1970; Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972; That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977) and as a drug lord in The French Connection (1971), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century.
The debonair Rey was described by French Connection producer Philip D'Antoni as "the last of the Continental guys".…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 279 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1968–1979
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1977
- Goya Award for Best Actor1989
- Medalla de Oro1991
- Castelao Medal1989
- Silver Shell for Best Actor1987
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts1982
- Silver Shell for Best Actor1972
How their films are shot
Measured across 279 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Fernando takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Fernando 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 279 frames from Fernando Rey's 5 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.