FrameThrower · Actors · William Fichtner
William Fichtner
10 films · 861 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1995–2023
Born 27 November 1956 · Mitchell Field Air Force Base, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
William Edward Fichtner is an American actor. Raised in the Buffalo, N.Y. area, he started his career with supporting appearances in Virtuosity (1995), Heat, and Strange Days (both 1995). A prolific character actor in film, Fichtner is recognised for memorable performances in Contact (1997), Armageddon (1998), Go (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Crash (2004), and The Longest Yard (2005).
In 2005, Fichtner starred as Sheriff Tom Underlay in Invasion. He later appeared as Alexander Mahone in Prison Break, Carl Hickman in Crossing Lines, and Adam Janikowski in Mom.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 861 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1995–2023
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
How their films are shot
Measured across 861 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work William takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work William 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.
Hypnotic
2023 · Dellrayne
The Underneath
1995 · Tommy Dundee
Elysium
2013 · John Carlyle
The Lone Ranger
2013 · Butch Cavendish
Ultraviolet
2006 · Garth
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
2001 · Detective Alex Tardio
Black Hawk Down
2001 · SFC Jeff Sanderson
Armageddon
1998 · Colonel Willie Sharp
Contact
1997 · Kent
Strange Days
1995 · Dwayne Engelman
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 861 frames from William Fichtner's 10 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.