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12-20-1954 (70 years)

Birthplace:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Michael Badalucco (born December 20, 1954) 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. He later attended SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, New York.

He is married to Brenda Heyob.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Act like George Nelson

event2000 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.

Miller's Crossing

Act like Caspar's Driver

event1990 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Act like Frank

event2001 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

One Fine Day

Act like Lt. Bonomo

event1996 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.

Switch

Act like Hard Hat

event1991 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

Bewitched

Act like Joey Props

event2005 star_border 5.1 top_panel_open

Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".

In My Sleep

Act like Derek

event2010 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

A sleepwalking, sexaholic masseur wakes up, covered in blood next to a bloody knife, when cops ring the doorbell.

The Hard Way

Act like Pizza Man

event1991 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.

Lesser Prophets

Act like Charlie

event1997 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his brother, now a suicide, had lost to them

The Search for One-eye Jimmy

Act like Joe Head

event1994 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.

The Resident

Act like Moving Man

event2011 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.

The Confession

Act like Arty

event2011 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

A unique story of redemption and an exploration of good and evil featuring a hit man and a priest.

Gourmet Club

Act like Chef Orsino Mangiacavallo

event2004 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

"Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the main course, wagering as to who can identify a mystery exotic ingredient. Things get interesting when the doctor's gambling problem catches up with him. Desperate, he comes up with the idea to use a truly shocking mystery ingredient to fool his colleagues, but he gets more than he bargained for when the mystery meal has a surprising and powerful effect on the members.

Mac

Act like Vico Vitelli

event1992 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.

Pizza My Heart

Act like Lou Prestolani

event2005 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Another modern spin-off of Romeo & Juliet, this time about two families who each run rivaling pizza restaurants in New Jersey.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Act like Bad Bernie (voice)

event2023 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Heebie Jeebies

Act like Billy Butler

event2013 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

When a haunted gold mine is reopened after a 150 years, a horrific supernatural creature escapes to exact vengeance on a small Southern town.

Love Walked In

Act like Eddie Bianco

event1997 star_border 4 top_panel_open

Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.

Addiction: A 60's Love Story

Act like Sam Kendrick

event2015 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, his truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about his dealings and the walls of it caving in around him. As he battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.

Léon: The Professional

Act like Mathilda's Father

event1994 star_border 8.3 top_panel_open

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

2BPerfectlyHonest

Act like Eugene

event2004 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has a son, is forced to consider the unthinkable - getting a real job.

10 Year Retrospective: Cast and Crew Look Back

Act like Himself - 'Mathilda's Father'

event2005 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

The cast and crew reflect back on the making of the film Léon - The Professional (1994).A series of interviews with people in different places, all of them involved in the film.

Night and the City

Act like Elaine's Bartender

event1992 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.

Dancer and the Dame

Act like Harrier

event2015 star_border 5.1 top_panel_open

Down-and-out Detective Dancer, who struggling with a personal conflict, gives up on life and his job. But that all ends when he is paired up with a police dog who is also dealing with post-traumatic stress. The dog helps Dancer make a life-changing turn around. And in response, Dancer does the same for his partner, the Dame.

Naked Movie

Act like Joe Head

event2008 top_panel_open

A slew of Hollywood stars -- including Carmen Electra, Lou Diamond Phillips and David Carradine -- play themselves in this mockumentary about what it takes to get a movie made in Hollywood. When director Sam Henry Kass gets little help from his agent (Tori Spelling) in procuring funding for his flick, he turns to a porn king (Andy Dick) for bucks. Soon, however, Kass is relegated to directing adult videos, and the porn mogul has wrested control.

Men Of Respect

Act like Sal

event1990 star_border 4.7 top_panel_open

In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.

Men Lie

event1994 top_panel_open

Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.

The Deli

Act like Eric the Soda Man

event1997 star_border 3.5 top_panel_open

An enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line.

Raging Bull

Act like Soda Fountain Clerk

event1980 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Nowhere to Hide

Act like Paulo Farina

event2009 star_border 3.6 top_panel_open

After the murder of a police inspector, his widow discovers with horror that, in addition, her only daughter has been kidnapped. While driving in her search, the voice of the technical roadside assistance that comes through the intercom installed in her vehicle, reports that he is who has kidnapped the girl.

The Mascot

Act like Karl

event2015 star_border 6 top_panel_open

“The Mascot”, tells the story of an out of work mascot’s spiraling identity crisis.

Basquiat

Act like Counterman at Deli

event1996 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Two If by Sea

Act like Quinn

event1996 star_border 4.9 top_panel_open

Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.

Rules Don't Apply

Act like Solly

event2016 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

Streets of Hope

Act like Roger Minassian

event2014 top_panel_open

Inspired by the true story about Rev. Roger Minassian who at the age of 53 left the security of his pastorate to step outside his comfort zone to do the truly amazing. Knowing nothing about gang youth, he took to the streets and transformed our city, ravaged by gang violence, by taking over 1,700 gang kids off of our streets. It is also the story of Santos Delgado, a gang member, who at age 16 had no future and little hope. He knew his future was either prison or death. His girlfriend was pregnant. He had to make life-changing decisions. This film is about taking risk, embracing change, overcoming the impossible, and finding hope.

Jungle Fever

Act like Frankie Botz

event1991 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

Clockers

Act like Cop #1

event1995 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

Juice

Act like Detective Kelly

event1992 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

13 Moons

Act like Producer

event2002 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.

Summer of Sam

Act like Son of Sam

event1999 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

You've Got Mail

Act like Charlie

event1998 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

The Hammer

Act like Sgt. Colby

event2017 star_border 4.3 top_panel_open

When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty.

Eagle and the Albatross

Act like Merle

event2020 star_border 2 top_panel_open

When an orphaned half Korean girl finds herself in small town America with her only living relative, she seeks out a mentor to help with the only thing she loves – golf. The best player in town, the widowed optometrist, takes her under his wing, sending them on a journey to face their fear of losing loved ones and their game. The only problem is, he has three months to live.

Zarra's Law

Act like Arthur Pascano

event2014 star_border 3.2 top_panel_open

Retired detective Tony Zarra is pushed into the world of crime after the murder of his younger brother.

Commandments

Act like Detective

event1997 star_border 5.1 top_panel_open

Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. In the midst of a wild thunderstorm he demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten Commandments.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Act like Guy from Brooklyn

event1985 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.

Broadway Danny Rose

Act like Money Ripper

event1984 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.

Sleepless in Seattle

Act like New York Taxi Dispatcher

event1993 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness soon leads to a meeting with a young female journalist, who has flown to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his father.

The Jesus Rolls

Act like Security Officer Barley

event2019 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.

Fading Gigolo

event2013 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Mixed Nuts

Act like AAA Driver

event1994 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July

Act like Narrator

event2002 top_panel_open

Imagine 125 men carrying a five-ton, five-story, hand-sculptured tower and a 12- piece brass band - on their shoulders - dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs! For 300 years in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area, this glorious ritual known as "The Dance of the Giglio" has been celebrated each summer with unbridled passion and devotion. This annual 65-foot-high moving monument to faith, folk-art and family honors a Roman Catholic Saint, San Paolino di Nola and his heroic act of sacrifice in the ancient Italian city of Nola in the year 409 A.D.

Boston Public

Act like Jimmy Berluti (1 ep.)

event2000 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.

Justice

(1 ep.)

event2006 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Justice is an American legal drama produced by Jerry Bruckheimer that aired on Fox in the USA and CTV in Canada. The series also aired on Warner Channel in Latin America, Nine Network in Australia, and on TV2 In New Zealand. It first was broadcast on Wednesdays at 9:00 but, due to low ratings, it was rescheduled to Mondays at 9:00, in the hope viewers of the hit series Prison Break would stay tuned. On November 13, 2006, the show was put on hiatus, but two days later the network announced it was shifting it to Fridays at 8:00 to replace the canceled Vanished. Fourteen episodes of the series were ordered, of which 13 episodes were produced. Twelve of the episodes of Justice have aired in the United States with the final episode airing in Mexico, the UK and Germany.

Joan of Arcadia

(1 ep.)

event2003 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's cryptic directives, all the while trying to retain a "normal" teen-aged existence.

Monk

Act like Owen McCloskey (1 ep.)

event2002 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

Bones

Act like Scott Starret (1 ep.)

event2005 star_border 8.2 top_panel_open

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Cold Case

Act like Don Bardwill (2010) (1 ep.)

event2003 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Act like Tom Galli (1 ep.)

event1999 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Central Park West

(1 ep.)

event1995 star_border 4.6 top_panel_open

The glamorous and exciting life for the staff of trendy magazine 'Communique', owned by Allen Rush, "the Darth Vader of publishing".

Never Have I Ever

Act like Howard Gross (3 ep.)

event2020 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.

Ally McBeal

Act like Jimmy Berluti (uncredited) (1 ep.)

event1997 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

New York News

(1 ep.)

event1995 top_panel_open

New York News is a newspaper drama which was broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1995 fall lineup.

Hollywood Squares

(10 ep.)

event1998 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

On September 14, 1998, a Hollywood Squares revival debuted with Tom Bergeron as its host. In addition to her production duties, Whoopi Goldberg served as the permanent center square, with series head writer Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Martin Mull, and Caroline Rhea as regular panelists and Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wallace, Kathy Griffin and various others as semi-regular panelists. Shadoe Stevens returned to announce, although he was not given a square on the panel as he had been when John Davidson was host.

Oh Jerome, No

Act like Craig (1 ep.)

event2019 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

An extremely sensitive young man in Brooklyn goes way too far in his quest to adhere to society's expectations of traditional masculinity.

The Practice

Act like Jimmy Berluti (168 ep.)

event1997 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

Boardwalk Empire

Act like Harry Prince (2 ep.)

event2010 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

The Confession

(10 ep.)

event2011 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

On Christmas Eve, a hit-man enters a church to confess his sins to a priest. While at first the Confessor seems to be an evil, cold-blooded killing machine and the Priest the ultimate arbiter of good, as the Confessor’s journey is revealed, it becomes clear that both men are much more complicated than either could have suspected.

Private Practice

Act like Nick (1 ep.)

event2007 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica.

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