FrameThrower · Actors · Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne
10 films · 718 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1981–2018
Born 12 May 1950 · Dublin, Ireland
Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award and nominations for a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors in 2020. In 2009, The Guardian named him one of the best actors who never received an Academy Award nomination.
Byrne's acting career began at the Focus Theatre in Dublin before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1974. His screen debut came in the Irish drama serial The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 718 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1981–2018
- Golden Globe Awards
- Theatre World Award2000
- IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 718 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gabriel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Gabriel takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 718 frames from Gabriel Byrne's 10 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.