Joe Grifasi
Known for: Acting
Born: June 14, 1944
Place of birth: Buffalo - New York - USA
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.
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Filmography
72 movies · 37 TV shows, newest first
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Tornado
2024
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Endgame
2023
1.0
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
2022
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Me To Play
2021
6.6
Radium Girls
2020
7.6
I Know This Much Is True
2020
7.8
Evil
2019
8.3
New Amsterdam
2018
6.7
Lodge 49
2018
7.6
The Good Fight
2017
4.0
No Pay, Nudity
2016
5.2
Baked in Brooklyn
2016
7.1
Bull
2016
4.7
The American Side
2016
6.3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
7.6
Elementary
2012
5.4
The Front
2010
7.3
The Last New Yorker
2010
7.6
The Good Wife
2009
6.3
Canterbury's Law
2008
7.2
The Bronx Is Burning
2007
5.6
A Crime
2006
6.7
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
2006
6.0
Conviction
2006
5.4
Slow Burn
2005
7.0
A Jersey Tale
2004
6.8
13 Going on 30
2004
7.5
Tarzan
2003
5.4
Hope & Faith
2003
6.4
Auto Focus
2002
6.3
Changing Lanes
2002
6.3
Queenie in Love
2001
7.0
61*
2001
5.4
Some of My Best Friends
2001
3.8
Looking for an Echo
2000
10.0
Deadline
2000
5.6
The Other Me
2000
4.0
The Beat
2000
5.9
Switching Goals
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
5.8
The Out-of-Towners
1999
4.1
The Naked Man
1998
5.7
The Deal
1998
5.2
Sunday
1997
7.6
The Practice
1997
6.5
One Fine Day
19966.5
Shadow of a Doubt
1996
7.4
Early Edition
1996
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Undue Influence
1996
7.8
Remember WENN
1996
6.6
Heavy
1995
5.9
Money Train
1995
5.7
Two Bits
1995
5.5
Batman Forever
1995
5.8
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994
7.8
ER
1994
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
7.1
Natural Born Killers
1994
6.5
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
7.1
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
6.7
Household Saints
1993
7.8
Moon Over Miami
1993
5.0
Taking the Heat
1993
7.0
Benny & Joon
1993
6.7
Class of '96
1993
7.7
Sinatra
1992
6.3
Citizen Cohn
1992
7.0
Primary Motive
1992
6.7
City of Hope
1991
8.0
WIOU
1990
7.3
Law & Order
1990
6.8
Presumed Innocent
1990
6.5
Capital News
1990
7.5
Kojak: Ariana
1989
6.8
Perfect Witness
1989
5.2
The Feud
1989
6.6
Chances Are
1989
7.3
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
6.8
Roseanne
1988
6.7
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1988
6.4
Big Business
1988
6.3
Ironweed
1987
6.8
Moonstruck
1987
7.4
Matewan
1987
9.0
One Police Plaza
1986
7.1
L.A. Law
1986
7.1
Matlock
1986
6.6
F/X
1986
5.1
Bad Medicine
1985
7.1
The Equalizer
1985
6.6
Brewster's Millions
1985
7.5
Moonlighting
1985
6.0
The Flamingo Kid
1984
6.4
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
6.3
Splash
1984
7.0
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
5.7
Still of the Night
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
5.9
The Elephant Man
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The 6th Annual Young Comedians
1981
5.4
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
5.7
The Gentleman Bandit
1981
7.6
Hill Street Blues
1981
5.7
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
3.8
Something Short of Paradise
1979
8.0
The Deer Hunter
1978
6.0
On the Yard
1978
8.0
Secret Service
1977
6.1
Great Performances
1971