FrameThrower · Actors · Michel Subor
Michel Subor
5 films · 451 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–2013
Born 2 February 1935 · Paris, France · died 17 January 2022
Michel Subor was a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou (1961). In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? (as lover Philippe) and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (as Claude Jade's husband, the journalist François Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie was Claire Denis' Bastards in 2013.
How their films are shot
Measured across 451 frames from the 5 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 5 films we hold, 63% of their frames are day, 54% 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.
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 451 frames from Michel Subor's 5 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.