FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Firth
Peter Firth
2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1985–1990
Born 27 October 1953 · Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Peter Firth is a British film and television actor best known for the films Tess, Equus and The Hunt for Red October, and for playing spymaster Harry Pearce in the BBC TV series Spooks and its movie spin-off Spooks: The Greater Good.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1985–1990
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture1977
- Theatre World Award1975
How their films are shot
Measured across 129 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peter 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, 81% of their frames are night, 74% low key — the look of the work Peter takes.
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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 129 frames from Peter Firth'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.