FrameThrower · Actors · Don Johnson
Don Johnson
5 films · 373 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1995–2024
Born 15 December 1949 · Flat Creek, Missouri, USA
Donald Wayne Johnson is an American actor, producer, director, singer, and songwriter. He's best known for his role as Det. James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, winning a Golden Globe for his work in the role.
In 1984, after more then a decade of acting on television, Johnson landed a starring role as undercover police detective Sonny Crockett in the Michael Mann/Universal Television cop series, Miami Vice (1984-1990).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 373 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1995–2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama1985
- Saturn Awards1975
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 373 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Don 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, 57% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Don 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 373 frames from Don Johnson'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.