FrameThrower · Actors · Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson
3 films · 134 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1981–1990
Born 14 September 1936 · Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · died 16 December 2011
Thomas Nicol Williamson was a British actor. He was once described by playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando". He was also described by Samuel Beckett as "touched by genius" and viewed by many critics as "the Hamlet of his generation" during the late 1960s.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 134 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1981–1990
- Silver Shell for Best Actor1969
How their films are shot
Measured across 134 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nicol takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Nicol takes.
Time of day
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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 134 frames from Nicol Williamson's 3 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.