FrameThrower · Actors · Tchéky Karyo
Tchéky Karyo
5 films · 318 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2024
Born 4 October 1953 · Istanbul, Turkey · died 31 October 2025
Tchéky Karyo was a Turkish-born French actor.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 318 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2024
- Officer of Arts and Letters2014
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 318 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tchéky 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, 51% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Tchéky 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 318 frames from Tchéky Karyo'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.