FrameThrower · Actors · Hugh Quarshie
Hugh Quarshie
3 films · 215 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1986–1999
Born 22 December 1954 · Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
Hugh Anthony Quarshie is a Ghanaian-born British actor of stage, television, and film. Some of his best-known roles include his appearances in the films Highlander (1986) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and his long-running role as Ric Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2001–present).
How their films are shot
Measured across 215 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hugh 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, 44% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Hugh 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 215 frames from Hugh Quarshie'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.