FrameThrower · Actors · Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu
12 films · 785 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1980–2013
Born 27 December 1948 · Châteauroux, Indre, France
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor, film-maker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed approximately 170 movies since 1967. He has twice won the César Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card. After he garnered huge critical acclaim for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, which landed him a nomination for an Academy Award, Depardieu acted in many big budget Hollywood movies. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 785 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1980–2013
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy1990
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1990
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement1997
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor1985
- César Award for Best Actor1991
- César Award for Best Actor1981
- Knight of the Legion of Honour1996
- Knight of the National Order of Merit1985
- Lumière Award for Best Actor2007
- Stanislavsky Award2006
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year1992
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor1983
How their films are shot
Measured across 785 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gérard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 44% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Gérard takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A Farewell to Fools
2013 · Ipu
102 Dalmatians
2000 · Jean Pierre Le Pelt
Bogus
1996 · Bogus
Helas Pour Moi
1993 · Simon Donnadieu
The Moon in the Gutter
1983 · Gérard Delmas, docker haunted by his sister's suicide
The Return of Martin Guerre
1982 · Arnaud du Tilh
The Woman Next Door
1981 · Bernard Coudray
The Last Metro
1980 · Bernard Granger
My American Uncle (Mon oncle d’Amérique)
1980 · René Ragueneau
La Vie En Rose
2007 · Louis Leplée
CQ
2001 · Andrezej
I Want To Go Home
1989 · Christian Gauthier
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 785 frames from Gérard Depardieu's 12 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.