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Nigel Davenport

Nigel Davenport

2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19741986

Born 23 May 1928 · Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · died 25 October 2013

Arthur Nigel Davenport was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

How their films are shot

Measured across 125 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nigel 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 Nigel takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day39%
Interior11%

Lighting

Low key36%
Natural36%
Chiaroscuro15%
High key8%

Shot size

Closeup38%
Medium33%
Wide19%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
Low angle13%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense19%
Lonely7%
Ominous7%

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 125 frames from Nigel Davenport'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.