FrameThrower · Actors · Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1955–1956
Born 10 January 1939 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA · died 12 February 1976
Salvatore Mineo Jr. was an American actor, singer, and director. He is best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Mineo also starred in films such as Crime in the Streets, Giant (both 1956), Exodus (1960), for which he won a Golden Globe and received second Academy Award nomination, The Longest Day (1962), and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).
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How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sal takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Sal takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 130 frames from Sal Mineo's 2 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.