FrameThrower · Actors · Frank Finlay
Frank Finlay
3 films · 197 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1973–2002
Born 6 August 1926 · Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK · died 30 January 2016
Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 197 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1973–2002
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor1974
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
How their films are shot
Measured across 197 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Frank takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Frank 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 197 frames from Frank Finlay's 3 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.