FrameThrower · Actors · Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti
5 films · 254 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1960–1981
Born 17 March 1925 · Rome, Italy · died 2 December 2015
Gabriele Ferzetti was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s.
Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man.
Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning...…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 254 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1960–1981
- Flaiano Prize
How their films are shot
Measured across 254 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gabriele 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, 64% of their frames are day, 58% natural — the look of the work Gabriele takes.
Time of day
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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 254 frames from Gabriele Ferzetti'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.