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Patrick Wymark

Patrick Wymark

3 films · 175 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19651971

Born 11 July 1926 · Lincolnshire, England, UK · died 20 October 1970

​Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England. He was brought up in neighbouring Grimsby and frequently re-visited the area during the height of his career. He attended University College, London, before training at the Old Vic Theatre School and making his first stage appearance in a walk-on part in Othello in 1951. He toured South Africa the following year and then directed plays for the drama department at Stanford University, California. Moving to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Wymark played a wide range of traditional roles, including Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing and Stephano in The Tempest.

How their films are shot

Measured across 175 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Patrick takes.

Time of day

Day52%
Night39%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key38%
Chiaroscuro6%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium41%
Closeup30%
Wide19%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level75%
Low angle17%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral54%
Tense24%
Ominous11%
Lonely6%

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 175 frames from Patrick Wymark'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.