FrameThrower · Actors · Jon Finch
Jon Finch
3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1970–1972
Born 2 March 1941 · Caterham, Surrey, England · died 28 December 2012
John Nicholas Finch was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971).
Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.
How their films are shot
Measured across 183 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jon 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, 50% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Jon 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 183 frames from Jon Finch'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.