FrameThrower · Actors · Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan
5 films · 417 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1945–1983
Born 20 June 1921 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France · died 14 February 2015
Louis Jourdan was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production Count Dracula.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 417 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1945–1983
- Knight of the Legion of Honour2009
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Donaldson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 417 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Louis takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night — the look of the work Louis 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.
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 417 frames from Louis Jourdan's 5 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.