FrameThrower · Actors · Garry Cooper
Garry Cooper
5 films · 240 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1979–2025
Born 2 June 1955 · Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
Hull born Garry Cooper is an actor who came to fame playing Peter, the flash boyfriend of Leslie Ash and rival to Phil Daniels' wannabe mod in cult 1979 hit Quadrophenia. Other film credits include Michael Radford's big screen adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, My Beautiful Launderette, Prick Up Your Ears and Derek Jarman's Caravaggio. TV credits include The Vice, The Bill, Soldier Soldier and Zen.
How their films are shot
Measured across 240 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Garry 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, 53% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Garry 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 240 frames from Garry Cooper'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.