FrameThrower · Actors · Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci
7 films · 625 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1980–2019
Born 9 February 1943 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Joseph Frank “Joe” Pesci is an American retired actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is known for his roles as violent mobsters, funnymen, comic foils and quirky sidekicks. Pesci has starred in a number of high profile films such as Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, My Cousin Vinny, Easy Money, JFK, Moonwalker, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lethal Weapon films. In 1990, Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic mobster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, ten years after receiving a nomination in the same category for Raging Bull.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 625 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1980–2019
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1991
- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles1981
How their films are shot
Measured across 625 frames from the 7 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 7 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 42% low key — 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 625 frames from Joe Pesci's 7 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.