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Leo McKern

Leo McKern

3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19641970

Born 16 March 1920 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · died 23 July 2002

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO was an Australian-born English actor who appeared in numerous British and Australian television programmes and movies, and more than 200 stage roles.

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Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19641970

  • Officer of the Order of Australia1983

How their films are shot

Measured across 188 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Leo 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, 56% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Leo takes.

Time of day

Day56%
Night33%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Natural49%
Low key29%
High key11%
Silhouette6%

Shot size

Medium41%
Wide31%
Closeup13%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
High angle9%
Low angle8%
Top down5%

Mood

Neutral63%
Tense20%
Lonely8%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

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 188 frames from Leo McKern'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.