FrameThrower · Actors · Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
17 films · 1,489 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1988–2024
Born 19 September 1948 · Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Jeremy John Irons is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Irons's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,489 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1988–2024
- Academy Award for Best Actor1991
- Golden Globe Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2006
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1984
- Europe Theatre Prize2017
- European Film Academy Special Achievement Award1998
- Donostia Award1997
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,489 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jeremy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 17 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Jeremy 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.
Assassin’s Creed
2016 · Alan Rikkin
The Words
2012 · The Old Man
Inland Empire
2006 · Kingsley Stewart
Inland Empire
2006 · Kingsley Stewart
Lolita
1997 · Humbert Humbert
Stealing Beauty
1996 · Alex Parrish
Die Hard with a Vengeance
1995 · Simon
M. Butterfly
1993 · René Gallimard
Kafka
1991 · Kafka
Dead Ringers
1988 · Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
The Beekeeper
2024 · Wallace Westwyld
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · Alfred
Justice League
2017 · Alfred
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016 · Alfred
High-Rise
2015 · Anthony Royal
Margin Call
2011 · John Tuld
The Lion King
1994 · Scar (voice)
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 1,489 frames from Jeremy Irons's 17 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.