FrameThrower · Actors · Gad Elmaleh
Gad Elmaleh
2 films · 68 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2011–2013
Born 19 April 1971 · Casablanca, Morocco
Gad Elmaleh is a French-Moroccan stand-up comedian and actor. He has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Hors de prix, and La Doublure.
He is known for his stand-up comedy specials Décalages (1997), La Vie normale (2000), L'autre c'est moi (2005), Papa est en haut (2007), Sans tambour (2013), 20 ans de scène (2015), Oh My Gad (2015), Gad Elmaleh part en live (2016), American Dream (2017), D’Ailleurs (2022).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 68 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2011–2013
- Knight of the National Order of Quebec2015
- Officer of Arts and Letters
How their films are shot
Measured across 68 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gad takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 40% low key — the look of the work Gad 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 68 frames from Gad Elmaleh's 2 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.