FrameThrower · Actors · John Cleese
John Cleese
8 films · 657 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–2010
Born 27 October 1939 · Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the mid 1970s, Cleese and his first wife Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 657 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–2010
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1989
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series1987
- Rose d'Or2016
- honorary doctorate2016
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award2001
How their films are shot
Measured across 657 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work John 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 day, 52% natural — the look of the work John 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.
Life of Brian
1979 · Wise Man #1 / Reg / Jewish Official / First Centurion / Deadly Dirk / Arthur
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · Second Swallow-Savvy Guard / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Launcelot the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Tim the Enchanter
Shrek Forever After
2010 · King Harold (voice)
Shrek the Third
2007 · King Harold (voice)
Shrek 2
2004 · King Harold (voice)
Die Another Day
2002 · Q
The World is Not Enough
1999 · R
Time Bandits
1981 · Robin Hood
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 657 frames from John Cleese'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.