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Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

6 films · 320 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19451982

Born 29 September 1913 · Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK · died 7 January 1988

Trevor Howard was a British actor. He was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England, the son of Mabel Grey (Wallace) and Arthur John Howard. He was educated at Clifton College (to which he left in his will a substantial legacy for a drama scholarship) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), acting on the London stage for several years before World War II.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 320 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19451982

  • BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1959
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1963

How their films are shot

Measured across 320 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Trevor 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, 56% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Trevor takes.

Time of day

Night56%
Day35%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key44%
Natural32%
High key11%
Chiaroscuro9%

Shot size

Medium38%
Wide33%
Closeup15%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle10%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense17%
Lonely9%
Ominous7%

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 320 frames from Trevor Howard'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.