FrameThrower · Actors · Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi
5 films · 311 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1953–1974
Born 15 February 1926 · Cortemaggiore - Piacenza - Emilia-Romagna - Italy · died 18 October 1995
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Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.
Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film. When he was 24 years old, with a few experience in cinema, has got a small important roll in Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut.
Federico Fellini offers him the starring role in I vitelloni. In Italy, he was considerated the Cary Grant all'italiana.
How their films are shot
Measured across 311 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Franco 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, 54% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Franco takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 311 frames from Franco Fabrizi'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.