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Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart

10 films · 840 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19842019

Born 13 July 1940 · Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

An English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century. He is most widely known for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films. Stewart was born in Mirfield near Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of Gladys, a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army who served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and previously worked as a general labourer and as a postman.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 840 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19842019

  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire2000
  • honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel2015
  • Knight Bachelor2009
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role1979
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Grammy Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 840 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Patrick takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Patrick takes.

Time of day

Night53%
Day25%
Interior19%

Lighting

Low key53%
Natural31%
High key13%

Shot size

Medium50%
Closeup26%
Wide15%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle8%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral49%
Tense25%
Ominous8%
Mysterious6%

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 840 frames from Patrick Stewart's 10 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.