Joe Grifasi

Known for ActingBorn 1944-06-14 (age 81)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Deadline

One Police Plaza

Secret Service

New Amsterdam

Evil

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

WIOU

I Know This Much Is True

The 6th Annual Young Comedians

ER

Remember WENN

The Deer Hunter

Elementary

The Good Fight

Moon Over Miami

The Good Wife

The Practice

Sinatra

Tarzan

Hill Street Blues

The Last New Yorker

Kojak: Ariana

Moonlighting

The Bronx Is Burning

Early Edition

Matewan

Law & Order

Bull

Chicago Hope

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Perfect Witness

A Jersey Tale

The Hudsucker Proxy

Matlock

Natural Born Killers

The Equalizer

61*

L.A. Law

Benny & Joon

Primary Motive

Radium Girls

Lodge 49

Will There Really Be a Morning?

13 Going on 30

Moonstruck

Presumed Innocent

City of Hope

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed