FrameThrower · Actors · Yves Montand
Yves Montand
7 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1953–1992
Born 13 October 1921 · Monsummano Terme, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy · died 9 November 1991
Ivo Livi, better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists.
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Stignano, a small village in the hills of Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer. Montand's mother Giuseppina Simoni was a devout Catholic. The family left Italy for France in 1923 following fascist Benito Mussolini's rise to power. He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 389 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1953–1992
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor1973
How their films are shot
Measured across 389 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Yves takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Yves takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 389 frames from Yves Montand's 7 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.