FrameThrower · Actors · Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr
8 films · 714 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1987–2023
Born 27 September 1960 · Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Jean-Marc Barr is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer. Barr is bilingual in French and English: he speaks French with a nasal, hybrid accent, reminiscent of his American upbringing - with a slight American accent and occasional anglicisms in interviews - and English with a Mid-Atlantic accent.
He studied philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 714 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jean-Marc 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, 43% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work Jean-Marc 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 714 frames from Jean-Marc Barr'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.