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:

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.

Played in movies:

The Deer Hunter

Score: 8.0

Matewan

Score: 7.4

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

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

Heavy

Score: 6.7

City of Hope

Score: 6.7

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

Score: 6.6

Brewster's Millions

Score: 6.6

Chances Are

Score: 6.6

F/X

Score: 6.6

Perfect Witness

Score: 6.5

The Last New Yorker

Score: 6.5

Radium Girls

Score: 6.5

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

Score: 6.5

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Score: 6.5

One Fine Day

Score: 6.4

Household Saints

Score: 6.4

Auto Focus

Score: 6.4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Score: 6.4

Big Business

Score: 6.4

Ironweed

Score: 6.3

Splash

Score: 6.3

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Score: 6.3

Changing Lanes

Score: 6.3

Citizen Cohn

Score: 6.3

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: 5.9

On the Yard

Score: 5.8

The Out-of-Towners

Score: 5.8

Still of the Night

Score: 5.7

Two Bits

Score: 5.7

The Front

Score: 5.6

The Other Me

Score: 5.6

The Elephant Man

Score: 5.6

A Crime

Score: 5.5

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

Score: 5.5

Undue Influence

Score: 5.5

Batman Forever

Score: 5.4

Slow Burn

Score: 5.3

Hide in Plain Sight

Score: 5.3

Sunday

Score: 5.2

Baked in Brooklyn

Score: 5.2

Honky Tonk Freeway

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 Gentleman Bandit

Score: 4.8

The American Side

Score: 4.7

The Feud

Score: 4.3

No Pay, Nudity

Score: 4.0

The Naked Man

Score: 4.0

Something Short of Paradise

Score: 3.0

Looking for an Echo

Score: 2.7

The Dreams of Rene Sendam

Score: 1.0

The 6th Annual Young Comedians

Score: 0.0

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

The Practice

Score: 7.7

The Good Fight

Score: 7.6

Hill Street Blues

Score: 7.6

Elementary

Score: 7.6

The Good Wife

Score: 7.6

I Know This Much Is True

Score: 7.6

Moonlighting

Score: 7.5

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Early Edition

Score: 7.3

Tarzan

Score: 7.3

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

The Equalizer

Score: 7.1

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

Capital News

Score: 6.0

WIOU

Score: 6.0

Conviction

Score: 5.7

Some of My Best Friends

Score: 5.6

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

Hope & Faith

Score: 5.4

Class of '96

Score: 5.0

The Beat

Score: 2.0

Deadline

Score: 0.0