FrameThrower · Actors · Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta
14 films · 1,117 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1986–2021
Born 18 December 1954 · Newark, New Jersey, USA · died 26 May 2022
Raymond Allen Liotta was an American actor and producer. His best-known roles include Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989), Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990), and Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002).
His other roles included Ray Sinclair in Something Wild (1986), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, as well as starring in Unlawful Entry (1992), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Killing Them Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), and Marriage Story (2019), as well as the drama series Shades of Blue (2016–2018).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 14 films · 1,117 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1986–2021
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series2005
- New Jersey Hall of Fame2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,117 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ray takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 14 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 43% natural — the look of the work Ray takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Observe And Report
2009 · Detective Harrison
Narc
2002 · Det. Lt. Henry Oak
Cop Land
1997 · Gary "Figgsy" Figgis
Goodfellas
1990 · Henry Hill
Something Wild
1986 · Ray Sinclair
The Many Saints of Newark
2021 · "Hollywood Dick" Moltisanti / Salvatore “Sally” Moltisanti
No Sudden Move
2021 · Frank Capelli
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Joey
Killing Them Softly
2012 · Markie Trattman
The Place Beyond The Pines
2012 · Peter Deluca
Youth In Revolt
2009 · Lance Wescott
John Q
2002 · Chief Gus Monroe
Hannibal
2001 · Paul Krendler
Marriage Story
· Jay Marotta
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 1,117 frames from Ray Liotta's 14 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.