FrameThrower · Actors · Michael York
Michael York
4 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1967–1997
Born 27 March 1942 · Fulmer, England, UK
Michael York OBE is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1967–1997
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Order of Danica Hrvatska
- Mary Pickford Award
- Audie Award for Best Male Narrator
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 180 frames from the 4 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 4 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 40% 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 180 frames from Michael York's 4 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.