FrameThrower · Actors · Helmut Griem
Helmut Griem
3 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1969–1973
Born 6 April 1932 · Hamburg, Germany · died 19 November 2004
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Helmut Griem was a German actor.
Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich.
Among his many film and TV appearances (a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), in which he played the rich "Baron Maximilian von Heune" is…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1969–1973
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
How their films are shot
Measured across 180 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Helmut 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, 70% of their frames are night, 69% low key — the look of the work Helmut 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.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 180 frames from Helmut Griem'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.