FrameThrower · Actors · Michel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli
13 films · 722 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1963–2012
Born 27 December 1925 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · died 12 May 2020
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 722 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1963–2012
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1980
- Silver Bear for Best Actor1982
- David di Donatello for Best Actor
- European Film Academy Honorary Award2011
- Europe Theatre Prize2001
- German Film Award for Best Actor1988
- Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism
How their films are shot
Measured across 722 frames from the 13 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 13 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 43% 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.
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
2012 · Le père
One Hundred and One Nights
1995 · Simon Cinéma
Milou en Mai
1990 · Milou
Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood) (The Night Is Young)
1986 · Marc
Dillinger is Dead
1969 · Glauco
Danger Diabolik
1968 · Inspector Ginko
Belle De Jour
1967 · Henri Husson
Les Créatures
1966 · Edgar Piccoli
Contempt (Le Mépris)
1963 · Paul Javal
Holy Motors
2012 · Man with the Wine Stain
On War
2008 · Le grand Hou
Todo Modo
1976 · Lui
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
1967 · Simon Dame
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 722 frames from Michel Piccoli's 13 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.