FrameThrower · Actors · Orson Welles
Orson Welles
16 films · 944 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1941–1973
Born 6 May 1915 · Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA · died 10 October 1985
George Orson Welles was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 16 films · 944 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1941–1973
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay1942
- Palme d'Or1952
- Golden Lion1970
- Commander of the Legion of Honour1982
- AFI Life Achievement Award1975
- honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII1974
- Academy Honorary Award1970
- National Board of Review Award for Best Film
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 944 frames from the 16 films we hold. This is the look of the work Orson takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 16 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night — the look of the work Orson 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.
F for Fake
1973 · Self
A Safe Place
1971 · The Magician
Malpertuis
1971 · Cassavius
The Immortal Story
1968 · Charles Clay
Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)
1965 · Falstaff
Compulsion
1959 · Jonathan Wilk
Touch of Evil
1958 · Police Captain Hank Quinlan
Mr. Arkadin
1955 · Gregory Arkadin
Othello
1952 · Othello
The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Michael O'Hara
The Stranger
1946 · Prof. Charles Rankin
Citizen Kane
1941 · Charles Foster Kane
Casino Royale (1967)
1967 · Le Chiffre
The Trial
1962 · Albert Hastler
The Third Man
1949 · Harry Lime
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Narrator (voice)
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 944 frames from Orson Welles's 16 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.