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Joe Grifasi
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Joe Grifasi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1944-06-14,Buffalo - New York - USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Joseph G. "Joe" Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor of film, stage and television. Born in Buffalo, New York, Grifasi joined the U.S. Army prior to studying acting. He has appeared in more than 50 feature films including Presumed Innocent, The Deer Hunter, Big Business, Beaches, Auto Focus, Matewan, Naked Gun, Dark Matter, Natural Born Killers, Chances Are, Changing Lanes, One Fine Day, F/X, Benny & Joon, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Brewster’s Millions, Batman Forever, The Flamingo Kid, Ironweed, and Splash. His television credits include The Bronx is Burning (as Yogi Berra), 61* (as Phil Rizzuto), Law & Order, ER, LA Law, Chicago Hope, Hill Street Blues, SCTV, Roseanne, and The Practice. Grifasi’s Broadway credits include Dinner at Eight, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Memory of Two Mondays, Boy Meets Girl, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The 1940’s Radio Hour and Happy End. His off-Broadway credits include Conversations in Tusculum, The Boys Next Door (Drama Desk Nomination), Once Around the City, Golden Boy, Filumena and Says I, Says He. He has been married to jazz soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom, whom he met while studying at the Yale School of Drama, since 1974.

Filmography

6.583

City of Hope
1991-10-11

5.4

A Crime
2006-09-11

5.451

Batman Forever
1995-06-16

4.2

The Feud
1989-09-30

6.6

Chances Are
1989-03-10

Will There Really Be a Morning?

7

Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983-02-22

7.022

Benny & Joon
1993-04-16

Brewster's Millions

6.602

Brewster's Millions
1985-05-22

Presumed Innocent

6.798

Presumed Innocent
1990-07-27

6.447

One Fine Day
1996-12-20

The Deer Hunter

7.985

The Deer Hunter
1978-12-08

The Hudsucker Proxy

7.1

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994-03-11

Still of the Night

5.7

Still of the Night
1982-11-19

The Pope of Greenwich Village

6.4

The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984-06-22

5.7

Two Bits
1995-10-22

The Elephant Man

5.6

The Elephant Man
1982-01-04

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

6.6

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
2006-06-10

0

Endgame
2023-04-14

5.554

The Other Me
2000-09-08

Honky Tonk Freeway

5.2

Honky Tonk Freeway
1981-08-21

Hide in Plain Sight

5.3

Hide in Plain Sight
1980-03-21

5.6

The Front
2010-05-26

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

6.469

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1988-09-07

5

The Deal
1998-01-01

The Dreams of Rene Sendam

1

The Dreams of Rene Sendam
2022-01-18

6.5

Radium Girls
2020-10-23

The Flamingo Kid

6

The Flamingo Kid
1984-12-21

Something Short of Paradise

2.5

Something Short of Paradise
1979-09-14

The Last New Yorker

6.5

The Last New Yorker
2010-02-19

Queenie in Love

5.9

Queenie in Love
2001-09-12

7.37

Matewan
1987-08-28

5.8

On the Yard
1978-09-16

6.3

Splash
1984-03-09

Looking for an Echo

2.7

Looking for an Echo
2000-11-10

6.3

Big Business
1988-06-10

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

7.3

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988-12-02

6.562

F/X
1986-02-07

6.6

Heavy
1995-12-29

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

6.484

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994-03-18

0

A Jersey Tale
2004-06-25

5.845

Money Train
1995-11-21

The American Side

4.7

The American Side
2016-04-14

A Midsummer Night's Dream

6.4

A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014-09-08

Shadow of a Doubt

5

Shadow of a Doubt
1996-12-03

6

Kojak: Ariana
1989-11-02

5.5

Primary Motive
1992-08-02

6.764

13 Going on 30
2004-04-13

Natural Born Killers

7.055

Natural Born Killers
1994-08-26

Baked in Brooklyn

5.2

Baked in Brooklyn
2016-10-14

Switching Goals

5.858

Switching Goals
1999-12-12

The Out-of-Towners

5.8

The Out-of-Towners
1999-04-02

The Gentleman Bandit

4.8

The Gentleman Bandit
1981-05-06

Undue Influence

5.5

Undue Influence
1996-09-15

6.837

Moonstruck
1987-12-16

Perfect Witness

6.5

Perfect Witness
1989-10-28

0

Secret Service
1977-01-12

Household Saints

6.5

Household Saints
1993-09-15

6.961

61*
2001-04-28

4.818

Sunday
1997-05-01

5.3

Slow Burn
2005-09-12

5.092

Bad Medicine
1985-11-22

6.022

Citizen Cohn
1992-08-22

Taking the Heat

4

Taking the Heat
1993-06-06

6.371

Auto Focus
2002-10-18

One Police Plaza

0

One Police Plaza
1986-11-29

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

5.6

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994-10-02

3.8

The Naked Man
1998-08-02

6.275

Changing Lanes
2002-04-07

0

Me To Play
2021-02-16

6.3

Ironweed
1987-12-18

4

No Pay, Nudity
2016-11-04

The 6th Annual Young Comedians

0

The 6th Annual Young Comedians
1981-12-11

0

Tornado
2024-10-06

7.4

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7

L.A. Law
1986-09-15

5.27

Hope & Faith
2003-09-23

7.3

Early Edition
1996-09-28

7.5

Moonlighting
1985-03-03

6.778

Roseanne
1988-10-18

0

Deadline
2000-10-02

Canterbury's Law

6.3

Canterbury's Law
2008-03-10

Moon Over Miami

7

Moon Over Miami
1993-09-15

7.214

Chicago Hope
1994-09-18

7.831

ER
1994-09-19

6

WIOU
1990-10-24

5

Class of '96
1993-01-19

7.614

Elementary
2012-09-27

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.938

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

The Bronx Is Burning

7.2

The Bronx Is Burning
2007-07-09

7.6

Sinatra
1992-11-08

7.4

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7.1

Bull
2016-09-20

7.746

Evil
2019-09-26

2

The Beat
2000-03-21

7.389

Tarzan
2003-10-05

7.1

Bull
2016-09-20

5.7

Conviction
2006-03-03

7.528

The Good Fight
2017-02-19

I Know This Much Is True

7.577

I Know This Much Is True
2020-05-09

7.1

The Equalizer
1985-09-18

Some of My Best Friends

4.833

Some of My Best Friends
2001-02-28

6.6

Lodge 49
2018-08-06

Great Performances

5.818

Great Performances
1971-01-28

6

Capital News
1990-04-09

7.59

The Good Wife
2009-09-22

8.341

New Amsterdam
2018-09-25

8

Remember WENN
1996-01-13

7.648

The Practice
1997-03-04

Hill Street Blues

7.6

Hill Street Blues
1981-01-15

7.1

Matlock
1986-03-03