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Nick Nolte

Nick Nolte

11 films · 704 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19912025

Born 8 February 1941 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Nicholas King Nolte is an American actor. Known for his leading man roles in both dramas and romances, he has received a Golden Globe Award and nominations for three Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Nolte first became famous for his role in the ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie nomination. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for The Prince of Tides (1991).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 704 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19912025

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1992
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2017

How their films are shot

Measured across 704 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nick takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 11 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Nick takes.

Time of day

Night51%
Day38%
Dusk4%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Low key46%
Natural42%
Silhouette7%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium41%
Closeup26%
Wide19%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle9%
Low angle7%

Mood

Neutral53%
Tense25%
Lonely11%
Ominous6%

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 704 frames from Nick Nolte's 11 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.