FrameThrower · Actors · Julian Richings
Julian Richings
7 films · 566 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1997–2025
Born 30 August 1956 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Julian Richings is a British-Canadian character actor. Richings has appeared in over 225 films and television series. He trained in drama at the University of Exeter and worked as an actor for several years in the United Kingdom before moving to Toronto in 1984. In the popular series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil he played the dual characters of the Hooded Leader and Atticus Murphy Senior. When not on screen, Richings is a busy stage actor. In February of 2016 he appeared in a play titled Mustard by rising star Kat Sandler at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. He played the role of Peter Icabod in 15 episodes of Patriot between 2015 and 2018.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 566 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1997–2025
- Dora Mavor Moore Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 566 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Julian takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 65% of their frames are night, 67% low key — the look of the work Julian takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 566 frames from Julian Richings's 7 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.