FrameThrower · Actors · Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme
8 films · 718 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1992–2012
Born 18 October 1960 · Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium
Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène van Varenberg, an accountant. “The Muscles from Brussels” started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was physically weak. At the age of 12, van Damme began his martial arts training at Centre National De Karate (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Master Claude Goetz in Ixelles, Belgium. Van Damme trained for 4 years and earned a spot on the Belgium Karate Team.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 718 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1992–2012
- Officer of the Order of the Crown
How their films are shot
Measured across 718 frames from the 8 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 8 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 51% 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.
6 Bullets
2012 · Samson Gaul
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
2012 · Luc Deveraux
Assassination Games
2011 · Vincent Brazil
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
2009 · Luc Deveraux
Universal Soldier: The Return
1999 · Luc Deveraux
Maximum Risk
1996 · Alain Moreau / Mikhail Suverov
Hard Target
1993 · Chance Boudreaux
Universal Soldier
1992 · Luc Deveraux / GR44
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 718 frames from Jean-Claude Van Damme's 8 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.