FrameThrower · Actors · Richard Gere
Richard Gere
9 films · 629 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1978–2016
Born 31 August 1949 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor and producer. He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). He came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in many well-received films, including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), Primal Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the Academy Award-winning musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 629 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1978–2016
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy2002
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2003
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor1979
- Donostia Award2007
- Marian Anderson Award2007
- Geuzenpenning2005
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast2002
- Light of Truth Award1996
- Theatre World Award1980
- James Parks Morton Interfaith Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 629 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Richard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Richard takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016 · Norman Oppenheimer
The Mothman Prophecies
2002 · John Klein
Chicago
2002 · Billy Flynn
The Cotton Club
1984 · Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer
Breathless
1983 · Jesse
American Gigolo
1980 · Julian Kaye
Days Of Heaven
1978 · Bill
I’m Not There
2007 · Billy
Rhapsody in August
1991 · Clark (Kane's Nephew)
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
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