FrameThrower · Actors · Burt Young
Burt Young
3 films · 266 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–2004
Born 30 April 1940 · New York City, New York, USA · died 8 October 2023
Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, known professionally as Burt Young, was an American actor who played Rocky Balboa's friend Paulie in the Rocky film series. He also appeared in films such as Chinatown, The Gambler, and Once Upon a Time in America, and was a painter and a writer.
How their films are shot
Measured across 266 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Burt takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Burt 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 266 frames from Burt Young's 3 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.