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Andy Garcia

Andy Garcia

6 films · 492 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19872021

Born 12 April 1956 · Havana, Cuba

Andrés Arturo García Menéndez is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. He first rose to prominence acting in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) alongside Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro. He continued to act in films such as Stand and Deliver (1988), and Internal Affairs (1990). He then co-starred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990) as Vincent Mancini, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He continued to act in Hollywood films such as Stephen Frears' Hero (1992), the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), and the action thriller Desperate Measures (1998).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 492 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19872021

  • Great Immigrants Award2009
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 492 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Andy 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, 47% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Andy takes.

Time of day

Day47%
Night39%
Interior12%

Lighting

Natural42%
Low key37%
High key18%

Shot size

Medium53%
Closeup19%
Wide18%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle6%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense18%
Lonely6%

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 492 frames from Andy Garcia'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.