
Joe Grifasi
Known for ActingBorn 1944-06-14 (age 82)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
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Deadline
2000 · Series
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One Police Plaza
1986 · Movie
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Secret Service
1977 · Movie
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New Amsterdam
2018 · Series
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Evil
2019 · Series
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
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WIOU
1990 · Series
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I Know This Much Is True
2020 · Series
The 6th Annual Young Comedians
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The 6th Annual Young Comedians
1981 · Movie
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Remember WENN
1996 · Series
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The Deer Hunter
1978 · Movie
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Elementary
2012 · Series
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ER
1994 · Series
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The Good Fight
2017 · Series
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The Good Wife
2009 · Series
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Moon Over Miami
1993 · Series
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The Practice
1997 · Series
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Sinatra
1992 · Series
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Tarzan
2003 · Series
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Hill Street Blues
1981 · Series
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The Last New Yorker
2010 · Movie
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Kojak: Ariana
1989 · Movie
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Moonlighting
1985 · Series
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Early Edition
1996 · Series
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Matewan
1987 · Movie
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The Bronx Is Burning
2007 · Series
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Bull
2016 · Series
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Law & Order
1990 · Series
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Chicago Hope
1994 · Series
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · Movie
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Perfect Witness
1989 · Movie
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A Jersey Tale
2004 · Movie
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The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Movie
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Matlock
1986 · Series
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Natural Born Killers
1994 · Movie
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The Equalizer
1985 · Series
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61*
2001 · Movie
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L.A. Law
1986 · Series
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Benny & Joon
1993 · Movie
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Primary Motive
1992 · Movie
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Radium Girls
2020 · Movie
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Lodge 49
2018 · Series
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983 · Movie
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13 Going on 30
2004 · Movie
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Moonstruck
1987 · Movie
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Presumed Innocent
1990 · Movie
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City of Hope
1991 · Movie
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Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
2006 · Movie