FrameThrower · Actors · Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke
16 films · 1,158 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1981–2024
Born 16 September 1952 · Schenectady, New York, USA
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. is an American actor and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
During the star of the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), before portraying leading roles in films like The Motorcycle Boy in Rumble Fish (1983), Charlie Moran in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Captain Stanley White in Year of the Dragon and John Gray in 9½ Weeks (1986). He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and the horror mystery Angel Heart (both 1987).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 16 films · 1,158 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1981–2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama2009
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2009
- Saturn Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,158 frames from the 16 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mickey takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 16 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Mickey takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Marv
The Immortals
2011 · King Hyperion
The Wrestler
2008 · Randy
Domino
2005 · Ed Mosbey
Barfly
1987 · Henry Chinaski
Angel Heart
1987 · Harry Angel
Rumble Fish
1983 · The Motorcycle Boy
Nightmare Cinema
· The Projectionist
Faye
2024 · Self
Iron Man 2
2010 · Ivan Vanko
Sin City
2005 · Marv
Man on Fire
2004 · Jordan Kalfus
The Pledge
2001 · Jim Olstad
Get Carter
2000 · Cyrus Paice
Buffalo ’66
1998 · The Bookie
Body Heat
1981 · Teddy Lewis
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 1,158 frames from Mickey Rourke's 16 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.