FrameThrower · Actors · Pierre Arditi
Pierre Arditi
5 films · 280 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1980–2012
Born 1 December 1944 · Paris, France
Pierre Arditi is an award-winning French film and stage actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi.
He has often played romantic, womanizing roles, similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni.
In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Mélo, and in 1994, a César Award for Best Actor for his role in Smoking/No Smoking.
Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 280 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1980–2012
- César Award for Best Actor1994
- César Award for Best Supporting Actor1987
- Commander of the National Order of Merit2021
- Officer of the Legion of Honour2016
- Knight of the National Order of Merit1993
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres2017
- Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor1987
How their films are shot
Measured across 280 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Pierre takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Pierre takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 280 frames from Pierre Arditi's 5 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.