FrameThrower · Actors · Michel Bouquet
Michel Bouquet
4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1968–2012
Born 6 November 1925 · Paris, France · died 13 April 2022
Michel Bouquet was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.
Michel François Pierre Bouquet was born on 6 November 1925 in Paris. When he was seven years old, he was sent to a boarding school where he stayed until the age of 14.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1968–2012
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour2018
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour2013
- Commander of the Legion of Honour2007
- Officer of the Legion of Honour1996
- Knight of the Legion of Honour1983
- European Film Award for Best Actor1991
- Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism1983
- Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism1976
- Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism1967
- Molière Award for Best Actor
How their films are shot
Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michel 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, 55% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Michel 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 260 frames from Michel Bouquet'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.