FrameThrower · Actors · Mel Ferrer
Mel Ferrer
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–1981
Born 25 August 1917 · Elberon, New Jersey, USA · died 2 June 2008
Melchor Gastón Ferrer was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche, Lili, and Knights of the Round Table. He starred opposite his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn, in War and Peace and produced her film Wait Until Dark. He also acted extensively in European films and appeared in several cult hits, including The Antichrist (1974), The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), The Black Corsair (1976), and Nightmare City (1980).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–1981
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Mel 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 130 frames from Mel Ferrer's 2 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.