FrameThrower · Actors · Heathcote Williams
Heathcote Williams
3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1979–1997
Born 15 November 1941 · Helsby, Cheshire, England, UK · died 1 July 2017
John Henley Heathcote-Williams, known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist. He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems including Autogeddon, Falling for a Dolphin and Whale Nation, which in 1988 was described by Philip Hoare as "the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling." Williams invented his idiosyncratic "documentary/investigative poetry" style which he put to good purpose bringing a diverse range of environmental and political matters to public attention.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1979–1997
- John Whiting Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 188 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Heathcote takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Heathcote 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 188 frames from Heathcote Williams's 3 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.