FrameThrower · Actors · Philippe Léotard
Philippe Léotard
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1971–1988
Born 28 August 1940 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France · died 25 August 2001
Philippe Léotard was a French actor, poet and singer.
He was born in Nice, one of seven children - four girls, then three boys, of which he was the oldest - and was the brother of politician François Léotard. His childhood was normal except for an illness (rheumatic fever) which struck him and forced him to spend days in bed during which time he read a great many books. He was particularly fond of the poets - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Blaise Cendrars. He met Ariane Mnouchkine at the Sorbonne and in 1964.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Philippe 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, 63% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work Philippe takes.
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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 195 frames from Philippe Léotard'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.