FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon
17 films · 1,290 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1989–2019
Born 19 October 1940 · Cabra, Dublin, Ireland · died 27 September 2023
Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and four BAFTA TV Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.
Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987), and Man of the Moment (1990).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,290 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1989–2019
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire1990
- Irish Film & Television Awards2017
- British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award2012
- Evening Standard Theatre Awards2010
- Knight Bachelor1998
- Evening Standard Theatre Awards1995
- Laurence Olivier Awards1990
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award1989
- Evening Standard Theatre Awards1987
- Laurence Olivier Awards1987
- Laurence Olivier Awards1986
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,290 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 17 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Michael 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.
Open Range
2003 · Denton Baxter
Path to War
2003 · Lyndon Johnson
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Albert Spica
Judy
2019 · Bernard Delfont
Paddington
2014 · Uncle Pastuzo (voice)
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2
2011 · Albus Dumbledore
The Book of Eli
2010 · George
The King’s Speech
2010 · King George V
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · Franklin Bean (voice)
Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
2009 · Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Albus Dumbledore
Layer Cake
2004 · Eddie Temple
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
2004 · Oseary Drakoulias
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Baltus Van Tassel
Dancing at Lughnasa
1998 · Father Jack Mundy
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 1,290 frames from Michael Gambon's 17 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.