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Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin

6 films · 386 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19601996

Born 13 July 1941 · Paris, France · died 21 April 2022

Jacques Perrin was a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 386 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19601996

  • Volpi Cup for Best Actor1966
  • César Award for Best Documentary Film2011
  • César Award for Best Producer1997
  • Commander of the Legion of Honour
  • Commander of the National Order of Merit
  • Honorary doctor of the University of Liège2010
  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

How their films are shot

Measured across 386 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jacques takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 6 films we hold, 62% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Jacques takes.

Time of day

Day62%
Night29%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural49%
Low key24%
High key22%

Shot size

Medium42%
Closeup26%
Wide21%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle8%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral82%
Tense8%

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 386 frames from Jacques Perrin's 6 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.