FrameThrower · Actors · Irene Papas
Irene Papas
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1969–1979
Born 3 September 1929 · Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece · died 14 September 2022
Irene Papas, 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022) was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). She had a fine singing voice, on display in the 1968 recording Songs of Theodorakis.
Papas won Best Actress awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for Antigone and from the National Board of Review for The Trojan Women.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1969–1979
- Commander of the Order of the Phoenix
- Knight Commander of the Order of Alfonso X
- honorary doctorate at the University of Rome Tor Vergata2001
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres1995
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actress1971
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Irene 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, 65% of their frames are day, 59% natural — the look of the work Irene 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 195 frames from Irene Papas'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.