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Peter Wyngarde

Peter Wyngarde

2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19611980

Born 23 August 1927 · Singapore City, Singapore · died 15 January 2018

Peter Paul Wyngarde was an Anglo-Singaporean actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two British television series in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Department S (1969–1970) and Jason King (1971–1972).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19611980

  • Tie Man of the Year1971

How their films are shot

Measured across 126 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, 43% of their frames are night — the look of the work Peter takes.

Time of day

Night43%
Day31%
Interior24%

Lighting

Low key37%
Natural29%
High key22%
Chiaroscuro10%

Shot size

Medium33%
Wide26%
Closeup25%
Establishing10%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
High angle10%
Low angle8%

Mood

Neutral52%
Tense25%
Ominous17%

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 126 frames from Peter Wyngarde'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.