Joe Grifasi
Acting
Born 1944-06-14
Buffalo - New York - USA
109 credits
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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
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
Elementary
The Good Wife
Chicago Hope
ER
Great Performances
New Amsterdam
Evil
Hill Street Blues
L.A. Law
The Practice
Bull
The Good Fight
The Equalizer
Matlock
Moonlighting
Early Edition
American Playhouse
Hope & Faith
Batman Forever
13 Going on 30
The Deer Hunter
Remember WENN
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Natural Born Killers
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Lodge 49
Conviction
I Know This Much Is True
Moonstruck
Splash
Money Train
Presumed Innocent
Changing Lanes
Tarzan
One Fine Day
Deadline
The Beat
Benny & Joon
Roseanne
Chances Are
The Hudsucker Proxy
Class of '96
The Bronx Is Burning
Brewster's Millions
Canterbury's Law
Capital News
Big Business
Auto Focus
F/X
Matewan
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Moon Over Miami
WIOU
Undue Influence
Slow Burn
Ironweed
Still of the Night
The Out-of-Towners
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