FrameThrower · Actors · Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson
3 films · 132 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1978–1987
Born 11 August 1949 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · died 6 January 1990
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Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi.
Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in Guys and Dolls, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fool for Love, and Hamlet, among many others.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 132 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ian 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, 64% of their frames are night, 55% low key — the look of the work Ian 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 132 frames from Ian Charleson'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.