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Jean Bouise

Jean Bouise

7 films · 486 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19641990

Born 3 June 1929 · Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France · died 6 July 1989

Jean Bouise was a French actor.

He was born in Le Havre. In the 1950s he helped to found Théâtre de la Cité, and was a player in the company. He entered films in the 1960s, and played a supporting roles in The Shameless Old Lady, Z, L'Aveu, Out 1, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Section spéciale, and Monsieur Klein. He received César nominations for his roles in Le vieux fusil and Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff, before winning the Best Supporting Actor award for Coup de tête. Subsequently, he appeared in Édith et Marcel, Le Dernier Combat, Subway, The Big Blue and La Femme Nikita. He died in Lyon.

Source: Article "Jean Bouise" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

How their films are shot

Measured across 486 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jean takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 7 films we hold, 57% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Jean takes.

Time of day

Day57%
Night36%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural51%
Low key26%
High key13%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium47%
Wide22%
Closeup18%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level75%
Low angle15%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral62%
Tense20%
Lonely10%
Ominous4%

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 486 frames from Jean Bouise's 7 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.