The Bank of Borrowed NamesLos Angeles · New York · Quebec City · shot in spring 2002
The amount is blank. Write it in, one city at a time.
Four names, one boy
In the film Frank is a Pan Am co-pilot, a Secret Service agent and a doctor before anyone calls him by his own name. Each name took him somewhere, and each somewhere was really a place in Los Angeles, New York or Quebec.
Frank Taylor, co-pilot, pan am: 5 places in the film.
Frank Taylor: Co-pilot, Pan Am. The places where the film uses this name.
Wikipedia: Catch Me If You Can (film)Film Oblivion: Catch Me If You Can (2002) locationsLA Magazine: films shot at Union Station
200 Park Avenue, New York
The airline’s own tower in Manhattan is one of the film’s 147 locations.
An office tower over Grand Central Terminal. The best view is from Park Avenue to the north.
JFK Airport, Queens, New York
Frank picks up a boarding pass at the check-in desk; Carl confronts him in the tunnel.
Now the lobby of the TWA Hotel at JFK. The hotel sells day passes as well as rooms.
3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
As a pilot, Frank starts forging payroll cheques at the hotel.
A working school campus now. See it from Wilshire Boulevard and the small park in front.
800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles
Dressed as a Pan Am pilot, Frank sizes up the tellers of the Miami Mutual Bank.
A working station, open every day; walk in from Alameda Street. The old ticket concourse is shut except for events.
Ontario, California
At “Miami” airport Frank walks past the FBI inside a ring of new stewardesses.
A working airport in the Inland Empire, east of Los Angeles. Its terminals are open to travellers.
JFK Airport, Queens
Shortly after the TWA Flight Center closed, its main building was used to film Catch Me If You Can in 2002.
The check-in desk where Frank gets his boarding pass, and the tunnel where Carl confronts him, are still there.
Eero Saarinen’s firm designed it for TWA. It was dedicated on 28 May 1962 and closed after American Airlines bought TWA’s assets in 2001.
It reopened on 15 May 2019 as the lobby of the TWA Hotel, which has 512 rooms in two new towers.
Now the lobby of the TWA Hotel at JFK. The hotel sells day passes as well as rooms.
JFK Airport, Queens
The 1962 TWA Flight Center is the lobby; rooms are in two towers beside it. An infinity pool looks over a runway, a 1958 Lockheed Constellation serves cocktails, and there are exhibitions of TWA uniforms. Day passes as well as nights.
See the hotelBanks and towns that never were
A good forgery looks right until you hold it up. The film’s banks and towns are the same: hold each cheque to the lamp and see the real place in the paper.
Miami Mutual Bank: Union Station.
Film Oblivion: Catch Me If You Can (2002) locationsOn Location Tours: Catch Me If You Can
The Tropicana Motel: The Hollywood Roosevelt.
Film Oblivion: Catch Me If You Can (2002) locationsOn Location Tours: Catch Me If You Can
Miami International Airport: Ontario International Airport.
Montrichard, France: Place Royale.
Wikipedia: Catch Me If You Can (film)Wikipedia: Place Royale, Quebec City
Four cheques on the desk. Hold one up to the lamp.
Hollywood, Los Angeles
The hotel whose back door played the Tropicana Motel. It opened in 1927, and its own pool is the Tropicana Pool.
See the hotel
Montrichard, France · Place Royale, Quebec City
In the film Carl tracks Frank to Montrichard, France, in 1967 and arrests him there. The square is Place Royale in Quebec City.
The French police officer who makes the arrest is played by Frank Abagnale himself.
In the film Carl tracks Frank to Montrichard, France, in 1967 and arrests him there. The square is Place Royale in Quebec City. The French police officer who makes the arrest is played by Frank Abagnale himself.
Wikipedia: Catch Me If You Can (film)Wikipedia: Place Royale, Quebec CityWikipedia: Frank Abagnale
Lower Town, Old Québec
Champlain set up his settlement of 1608 on the site of the square, which is called the cradle of French civilisation in America.
It is part of the Historic District of Old Québec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
A public square in the Lower Town, open at all hours. Walk down to it from the Upper Town.
Quebec City
Live marketplace results for walking tours of the Lower Town and Place Royale.
Live marketplace results · itineraries change
Compare tours
Place Royale, Lower Town, Québec
Shooting also took place at the church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.
Building began in 1687 and finished in 1723. The church was renamed after the defence of Quebec in 1690, then again in 1711 after storms wrecked much of a British fleet.
British guns largely destroyed it in 1759. Its restoration, led by François Baillairgé, was finished in 1816.
A model of the Brézé, the marquis de Tracy’s ship, hangs inside. It has been a National Historic Site of Canada since 1988.
A working church on the square. Go in quietly between services.
Christopher Walken as Frank Abagnale Sr.
The son runs from the law; the father runs a stationer’s shop until the money goes. Their scenes were shot in three places, two of them a long way from where the film says.
West 6th Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles
Abagnale Stationers, Frank’s father’s shop, was filmed at 421 West 6th Street.
Late in the film, Frank stops on the same street, at number 446, in front of a pilot’s uniform in a shop window.
The Warner Grand Theatre, at 478 West 6th Street, opened on 20 January 1931. The city owns it and shows films and live events there.
A public shopping street in San Pedro’s old centre, by the port.
8 Chester Place, Los Angeles
Frank takes his father to dinner in the mansion’s Pompeian Room and tells him he has bought him a Cadillac.
Christopher Walken was overcome during one take of the restaurant scene, and that take is the one in the film.
The Dohenys bought the house at 8 Chester Place in 1901. The university was given the property in 1962, and the mansion is the centre of its downtown campus.
On Mount St. Mary’s University’s Chester Place campus, a gated street. Look for a public tour or concert before you go.
Yonkers, New York
When money runs out, Frank’s family moves into a smaller apartment, filmed at a building on Buena Vista Avenue in Yonkers.
Yonkers, just north of the Bronx, is the third-most populous city in New York State. Its downtown centres on Getty Square.
A private apartment building. It is named here and kept off the map.
The people
Steven Spielberg directed it from Frank Abagnale’s memoir. Leonardo DiCaprio played Frank, Tom Hanks the FBI agent Carl Hanratty, and Christopher Walken Frank’s father. Nathalie Baye played his mother, Amy Adams played Brenda Strong and Martin Sheen her father. Walken and the composer John Williams were both nominated for Academy Awards.
Carl Hanratty is not a real agent: he is drawn mainly from Joseph Shea, the FBI man who caught Abagnale.
Director, cast, Academy Award nominations for Walken and Williams, the shooting dates, 147 locations, the $52 million budget and the US release on 25 December 2002.
Carl Hanratty is based mainly on Joseph Shea.
10 places you can visit, in Los Angeles, New York and Quebec City. The family flat in Yonkers and the Strong house in Pasadena are private homes: named here, not on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working station, open every day; walk in from Alameda Street. The old ticket concourse is shut except for events.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working hotel. The back, where the motel scenes were shot, faces Hawthorn Avenue, a public street.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working school campus now. See it from Wilshire Boulevard and the small park in front.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. On Mount St. Mary’s University’s Chester Place campus, a gated street. Look for a public tour or concert before you go.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public shopping street in San Pedro’s old centre, by the port.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working airport in the Inland Empire, east of Los Angeles. Its terminals are open to travellers.
800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles
The Miami Mutual Bank, where Frank charms a bank teller, was filmed at Union Station.
A working station, open every day; walk in from Alameda Street. The old ticket concourse is shut except for events.
7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
The Tropicana Motel, where Carl comes looking for Frank, was filmed at the back of the Hollywood Roosevelt, on Hawthorn Avenue.
A working hotel. The back, where the motel scenes were shot, faces Hawthorn Avenue, a public street.
3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
After passing himself off as an airline pilot, Frank starts forging payroll cheques at the Ambassador Hotel.
A working school campus now. See it from Wilshire Boulevard and the small park in front.
8 Chester Place, Los Angeles
Frank takes his father to dinner in the mansion’s Pompeian Room and tells him he has bought him a Cadillac.
On Mount St. Mary’s University’s Chester Place campus, a gated street. Look for a public tour or concert before you go.
West 6th Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles
Abagnale Stationers, Frank’s father’s shop, was filmed at 421 West 6th Street.
A public shopping street in San Pedro’s old centre, by the port.
Ontario, California
Ontario International Airport doubled for Miami International Airport.
A working airport in the Inland Empire, east of Los Angeles. Its terminals are open to travellers.
Stay
A night in Saarinen’s terminal at JFK, or at the Hollywood hotel that played a motel.
JFK Airport, Queens
The 1962 TWA Flight Center is the lobby; rooms are in two towers beside it. An infinity pool looks over a runway, a 1958 Lockheed Constellation serves cocktails, and there are exhibitions of TWA uniforms. Day passes as well as nights.
See the hotelHollywood, Los Angeles
The hotel whose back door played the Tropicana Motel. It opened in 1927, and its own pool is the Tropicana Pool.
See the hotelGo there
Film-location tours in Los Angeles and walks round Old Québec.
Los Angeles
Live marketplace results for film-location tours of Los Angeles. None is built round this film; check each itinerary for downtown and Hollywood.
Live marketplace results · itineraries change
Compare toursQuebec City
Live marketplace results for walking tours of the Lower Town and Place Royale.
Live marketplace results · itineraries change
Compare toursWhat’s on
The stage version plays Burbank until 18 October 2026.
Checking current event dates…
Take it home
An original 2002 one-sheet, Abagnale’s book and John Williams’s soundtrack.
An original 2002 US one-sheet, 27 × 40 inches, rolled, in mint condition; art by Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas.
In stock
View posterFrank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding · Broadway Books
The 1980 memoir the film was based on. Read it knowing that much of it has since been shown to be untrue.
Find the bookJohn Williams · CD, DreamWorks Records, 2002
John Williams’s score, nominated for an Academy Award, on the 2002 US CD.
Live marketplace search · listings and condition change
Find a copyDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
12 of 12 places · 14 of 14 Moments
800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles
Dressed as a Pan Am pilot, Frank sizes up the tellers of the Miami Mutual Bank.
7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
Carl tracks Frank to the Tropicana Motel, where Frank calls himself Barry Allen of the Secret Service.
3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
As a pilot, Frank starts forging payroll cheques at the hotel.
8 Chester Place, Los Angeles
Frank takes his father to dinner and tells him he has bought him a Cadillac.
West 6th Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles
Frank’s father reads a letter from his son as he walks into his shop.
Frank stops at a shop window with a pilot’s uniform on display.
Ontario, California
At “Miami” airport Frank walks past the FBI inside a ring of new stewardesses.
Pasadena, California
Engaged to Brenda as Dr Frank Conners, Frank leaves her family’s house with the FBI close behind.
JFK Airport, Queens, New York
Frank picks up a boarding pass at the check-in desk; Carl confronts him in the tunnel.
200 Park Avenue, New York
The airline’s own tower in Manhattan is one of the film’s 147 locations.
Yonkers, New York
Frank’s family moves into a smaller apartment.
Lower Town, Old Québec
Carl arrests Frank in Montrichard, France: Place Royale in Quebec City.
Frank Abagnale himself plays the French police officer who arrests DiCaprio’s Frank.
Place Royale, Lower Town, Québec
The crew also shot at the church on the square.
_(4611665772).jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
