FrameThrower · Actors · Joe Dallesandro
Joe Dallesandro
6 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1973–1999
Born 31 December 1948 · Pensacola, Florida, USA
Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro, better known as Joe Dallesandro, is an American actor, and Warhol Factory superstar. Although he never became a mainstream film star, Dallesandro is generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex symbol of gay subculture.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1973–1999
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2012
How their films are shot
Measured across 447 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joe 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, 51% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Joe 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.
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 447 frames from Joe Dallesandro'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.