FrameThrower · Actors · Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel
23 films · 1,912 frames · top-billed in 17 · 1967–2020
Born 13 May 1939 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Harvey Johannes Keitel is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Irishman (2019).
Keitel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991). He won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Piano (1993).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,912 frames from the 23 films we hold. This is the look of the work Harvey takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 23 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Harvey 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.
Fatima
2020 · Professor Nichols
Youth
2015 · Mick Boyle
A Farewell to Fools
2013 · Father Johanis
The Congress
2013 · Al
Shadows in the Sun
2005 · Weldon Parish
Little Nicky
2000 · Dad
Cop Land
1997 · Ray Donlan
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 · Jacob Fuller
Clockers
1995 · Det. Rocco Klein
The Piano
1993 · George Baines
Reservoir Dogs
1992 · Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
Bad Lieutenant
1992 · LT
Thelma & Louise
1991 · Hal
The Last Temptation Of Christ
1988 · Judas
The Duellists
1977 · Gabriel Feraud
Mean Streets
1973 · Charlie Cappa
Who’s That Knocking At My Door
1967 · J.R.
The Irishman
2019 · Angelo Bruno
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Ludwig
Pulp Fiction
1994 · The Wolf
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson
1976 · The Relative (Ed Goodman)
Taxi Driver
1976 · Sport
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
1974 · Ben Eberhardt
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 1,912 frames from Harvey Keitel's 23 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.