FrameThrower · Actors · Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle
6 films · 385 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1996–2017
Born 14 April 1961 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Robert Carlyle OBE is a Scottish actor. His film work includes Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000), The Beach (2000), The 51st State (2001), Eragon (2006), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015). He has been in the television shows Hamish Macbeth, Stargate Universe, Once Upon a Time and COBRA.
He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Full Monty and a Gemini Award for Stargate Universe. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in the miniseries Human Trafficking (2005).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 385 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1996–2017
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
How their films are shot
Measured across 385 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Robert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 385 frames from Robert Carlyle's 6 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.