Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 14, 1944
Place of Birth
Buffalo - New York - USA
Credits
109 titles
Joe Grifasi
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.
Known For
Filmography
Tornado
Rich
Endgame
Nagg
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
Dr. Bradley
Me To Play
Himself
Radium Girls
Grandpa
I Know This Much Is True
Steve Falice
Evil
Lombino
New Amsterdam
Lilo Steinhauser
Lodge 49
The Good Fight
Judge John Mata
No Pay, Nudity
Mr. Davenport
Baked in Brooklyn
David's Dad
Bull
Judge Arlen Rand
The American Side
The Serb
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Peter Quince
Elementary
Captain Moretti
The Front
Mr. Zeffirelli
The Last New Yorker
Jerry
The Good Wife
Judge John Mata
Canterbury's Law
The Bronx Is Burning
Yogi Berra
A Crime
Bill
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
Uncle Sam
Conviction
Judge Harrigan
Slow Burn
Desk Sgt. Drown
A Jersey Tale
Alphonso "Chunks" Colon
13 Going on 30
Mr. Flamhaff
Tarzan
Lieutenant Scott Connor
Hope & Faith
Leo
Auto Focus
Strip Club M.C.
Changing Lanes
Judge Cosell
Queenie in Love
Berthold
61*
Phil Rizzuto
Some of My Best Friends
Joe Zito
Looking for an Echo
Vic
Deadline
Mike Phelan
The Other Me
Conrad
The Beat
Vince Marinelli
Switching Goals
Dave
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Hashi Horowitz
The Out-of-Towners
Arresting Cop
The Naked Man
Koski
The Deal
Boular
Sunday
Scottie Elster
The Practice
Harry Papp
One Fine Day
Manny Feldstein
Shadow of a Doubt
Sidney Sherman
Early Edition
Harry Hawks
Undue Influence
Clem
Remember WENN
Larry Looper