FrameThrower · Actors · Joe Pantoliano
Joe Pantoliano
9 films · 691 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2020
Born 12 September 1951 · Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Joseph Peter Pantoliano is an American actor who has played over 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He is best known for portraying Francis Fratelli in The Goonies (1985), Captain Conrad Howard in the Bad Boys film series (1995–2024), Cypher in the Wachowskis' sci-fi action film The Matrix (1999), Teddy in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller film Memento (2000), and Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (2001–2004), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Other notable film credits include Risky Business (1983), Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987), La Bamba (1987), Midnight…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 691 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2020
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series2003
How their films are shot
Measured across 691 frames from the 9 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 9 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 43% natural — the look of the work Joe takes.
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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 691 frames from Joe Pantoliano's 9 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.