FrameThrower · Actors · Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
2 films · 137 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1991–1991
Born 18 February 1946 · Paris, France
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Jean-Claude Dreyfus is a French actor. He began his career in film acting in 1973 in the film Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard. Dreyfus is notable for his portrayal of a butcher in the black comedy Delicatessen by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He collaborated again with Jeunet and actor Dominique Pinon in the films The City of Lost Children and A Very Long Engagement.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 137 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jean-Claude takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 80% of their frames are night, 81% low key — the look of the work Jean-Claude takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 137 frames from Jean-Claude Dreyfus's 2 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.