FrameThrower · Actors · Pierre Brasseur
Pierre Brasseur
5 films · 291 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1945–1969
Born 22 December 1905 · Paris, France · died 16 August 1972
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse was a French actor.
He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre.
Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 291 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1945–1969
- Prix du Brigadier1961
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 291 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, 45% of their frames are night — 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 291 frames from Pierre Brasseur'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.