FrameThrower · Actors · Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo
8 films · 468 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1960–1995
Born 9 April 1933 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France · died 6 September 2021
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo was a French actor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward, frequently portraying police officers and criminals in action thriller films. His best known credits include Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Borsalino (1970), and The Professional (1981). An undisputed box-office champion along with Louis de Funès and Alain Delon, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million viewers over his 50-year career.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 468 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1960–1995
- Honorary Palme d'Or2011
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement2016
- Golden Lion2016
- César Award for Best Actor1989
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour2019
- Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit2017
- Knight of the Order of Leopold2012
- Commander of the Legion of Honour2007
- Commander of the National Order of Merit1994
- Officer of the Legion of Honour1991
- Knight of the Legion of Honour1980
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
How their films are shot
Measured across 468 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jean-Paul 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 day, 47% natural — the look of the work Jean-Paul 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.
Mississippi Mermaid
1969 · Louis Mahé
The Thief of Paris
1967 · Georges Randal
Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete)
1965 · Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'
Le Doulos
1962 · Silien
Une Femme Est Une Femme (A Woman Is a Woman)
1961 · Alfred Lubitsch
Léon Morin, Priest
1961 · Léon Morin
À Bout De Souffle (Breathless)
1960 · Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
One Hundred and One Nights
1995 · Professor Bébel
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 468 frames from Jean-Paul Belmondo'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.