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Armand Assante

Armand Assante

3 films · 398 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19922007

Born 4 October 1949 · New York City, New York, USA

Armand Anthony Assante is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 398 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19922007

  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1997

How their films are shot

Measured across 398 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Armand takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 40% low key — the look of the work Armand takes.

Time of day

Night57%
Day33%
Interior8%

Lighting

Low key40%
Natural33%
High key24%

Shot size

Medium60%
Closeup20%
Wide12%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level93%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral69%
Tense13%
Lonely5%
Mysterious4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 398 frames from Armand Assante's 3 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.