FrameThrower · Actors · Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault
2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1955–2007
Born 24 January 1928 · Brunoy, Essonne, France · died 29 July 2007
Michel Serrault was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin.
In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1955–2007
- César Award for Best Actor1996
- César Award for Best Actor1982
- César Award for Best Actor1979
- Commander of the National Order of Merit2002
- Officer of the Legion of Honour1996
- Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit
- Lumière Award for Best Actor1998
- Lumière Award for Best Actor1996
- Molière Award for Best Actor1993
- Molière Award for Best Actor1987
How their films are shot
Measured across 124 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night — the look of the work Michel takes.
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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 124 frames from Michel Serrault'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.