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Michael Badalucco

Michael Badalucco

3 films · 208 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20002001

Born 20 December 1954 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Michael Badalucco is an American actor most famous for his role as lawyer Jimmy Berluti on the ABC legal drama The Practice. He won the 1999 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor for his role on the show.

Badalucco, an Italian American, was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean, a homemaker, and Joe Badalucco, a set dresser, movie set carpenter and property person. His brother is Joseph Badalucco Jr., whose most notable role was Jimmy Altieri in the show The Sopranos.

He attended Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, graduating in 1972. He was the guest speaker at the 2005 commencement.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 208 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20002001

  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series1999

How their films are shot

Measured across 208 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael 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, 49% of their frames are day — the look of the work Michael takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night44%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key39%
Natural33%
High key17%
Chiaroscuro9%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide25%
Closeup24%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
High angle12%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral58%
Tense24%
Ominous7%
Lonely6%

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 208 frames from Michael Badalucco'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.