FrameThrower · Actors · Jean Desailly
Jean Desailly
3 films · 179 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–1972
Born 24 August 1920 · Paris, France · died 11 June 2008
Jean Desailly was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 – 1946, and later participated in about ninety movies. Desailly was married to the French actress Simone Valère.
How their films are shot
Measured across 179 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Jean 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 179 frames from Jean Desailly'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.