Joe Grifasi

Joe Grifasi

Birthday: 1944-06-14

Place of birth: Buffalo - New York - USA

Also known as: Joseph G. Grifasi, Joseph Grifasi

imdb_id: nm0341055

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph G. "Joe" Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor of film, stage and television. Grifasi was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Patricia (née Gaglione) and Joseph J. Grifasi, a skilled laborer. Grifasi graduated from Bishop Fallon High School, a now defunct Catholic high school in Buffalo. He played football and acted in many of the school's plays. Grifasi briefly attended Canisius College in Buffalo before joining the United States Army. He went on to study at the Yale School of Drama. While at the Yale School of Drama, he met his future wife, the jazz soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. Grifasi has played two separate members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who played for the New York Yankees. In 61, set in 1961, he played Phil Rizzuto; in The Bronx Is Burning, set in 1977, he played Yogi Berra. Paul Borghese played Berra in 61, while actual 1977 broadcast recordings of Rizzuto were used in The Bronx Is Burning.

Played in movies:

The Deer Hunter

Score: 8.0

Matewan

Score: 7.3

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Score: 7.3

The Hudsucker Proxy

Score: 7.1

Natural Born Killers

Score: 7.1

Benny & Joon

Score: 7.0

Perfect Witness

Score: 7.0

Primary Motive

Score: 7.0

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Score: 7.0

61*

Score: 7.0

Moonstruck

Score: 6.9

Presumed Innocent

Score: 6.8

13 Going on 30

Score: 6.8

Radium Girls

Score: 6.7

City of Hope

Score: 6.7

Heavy

Score: 6.7

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

Score: 6.6

Chances Are

Score: 6.6

Brewster's Millions

Score: 6.6

F/X

Score: 6.6

Household Saints

Score: 6.5

The Last New Yorker

Score: 6.5

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

Score: 6.5

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Score: 6.5

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Score: 6.4

One Fine Day

Score: 6.4

Auto Focus

Score: 6.3

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Score: 6.3

Ironweed

Score: 6.3

Citizen Cohn

Score: 6.3

Big Business

Score: 6.3

Changing Lanes

Score: 6.3

Splash

Score: 6.3

The Gentleman Bandit

Score: 6.0

Kojak: Ariana

Score: 6.0

The Flamingo Kid

Score: 6.0

Queenie in Love

Score: 5.9

Switching Goals

Score: 5.9

Money Train

Score: 5.8

The Out-of-Towners

Score: 5.8

On the Yard

Score: 5.8

Still of the Night

Score: 5.8

Undue Influence

Score: 5.7

Two Bits

Score: 5.7

A Crime

Score: 5.7

The Front

Score: 5.6

The Other Me

Score: 5.6

The Elephant Man

Score: 5.6

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

Score: 5.5

Batman Forever

Score: 5.4

Slow Burn

Score: 5.3

Hide in Plain Sight

Score: 5.3

The Feud

Score: 5.3

Sunday

Score: 5.2

Honky Tonk Freeway

Score: 5.2

Baked in Brooklyn

Score: 5.2

Bad Medicine

Score: 5.1

Shadow of a Doubt

Score: 5.0

The Deal

Score: 5.0

Taking the Heat

Score: 4.8

The American Side

Score: 4.7

The Naked Man

Score: 4.3

Looking for an Echo

Score: 3.5

Something Short of Paradise

Score: 3.0

The Dreams of Rene Sendam

Score: 1.0

Me To Play

Score: 0.0

One Police Plaza

Score: 0.0

Secret Service

Score: 0.0

A Jersey Tale

Score: 0.0

Endgame

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

New Amsterdam

Score: 8.4

Remember WENN

Score: 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

Sinatra

Score: 7.9

ER

Score: 7.8

Evil

Score: 7.8

Hill Street Blues

Score: 7.6

Elementary

Score: 7.6

The Good Wife

Score: 7.6

The Good Fight

Score: 7.6

I Know This Much Is True

Score: 7.5

Moonlighting

Score: 7.5

Tarzan

Score: 7.5

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Early Edition

Score: 7.3

The Equalizer

Score: 7.2

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

L.A. Law

Score: 7.1

Bull

Score: 7.1

Bull

Score: 7.1

The Bronx Is Burning

Score: 7.0

Moon Over Miami

Score: 7.0

Roseanne

Score: 6.8

Lodge 49

Score: 6.6

Canterbury's Law

Score: 6.3

Some of My Best Friends

Score: 6.2

Capital News

Score: 6.0

WIOU

Score: 6.0

Conviction

Score: 5.9

Great Performances

Score: 5.6

Hope & Faith

Score: 5.3

Class of '96

Score: 5.0

The Beat

Score: 2.0

Deadline

Score: 0.0