Joe Grifasi
Acting
1944-06-14 · 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.
Filmography
Tornado
2024 · Movie
Endgame
2023 · Movie
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
2022 · Movie
Me To Play
2021 · Movie
Radium Girls
2020 · Movie
I Know This Much Is True
2020 · Series
Evil
2019 · Series
New Amsterdam
2018 · Series
Lodge 49
2018 · Series
The Good Fight
2017 · Series
No Pay, Nudity
2016 · Movie
Baked in Brooklyn
2016 · Movie
Bull
2016 · Series
The American Side
2016 · Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014 · Movie
Elementary
2012 · Series
The Front
2010 · Movie
The Last New Yorker
2010 · Movie
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Canterbury's Law
2008 · Series
The Bronx Is Burning
2007 · Series
A Crime
2006 · Movie
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
2006 · Movie
Conviction
2006 · Series
Slow Burn
2005 · Movie
A Jersey Tale
2004 · Movie
13 Going on 30
2004 · Movie
Tarzan
2003 · Series
Hope & Faith
2003 · Series
Auto Focus
2002 · Movie
Changing Lanes
2002 · Movie
Queenie in Love
2001 · Movie
61*
2001 · Movie
Some of My Best Friends
2001 · Series
Looking for an Echo
2000 · Movie
Deadline
2000 · Series
The Other Me
2000 · Movie
The Beat
2000 · Series
Switching Goals
1999 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
The Out-of-Towners
1999 · Movie
The Naked Man
1998 · Movie
The Deal
1998 · Movie
Sunday
1997 · Movie
The Practice
1997 · Series
One Fine Day
1996 · Movie
Shadow of a Doubt
1996 · Movie
Early Edition
1996 · Series
Undue Influence
1996 · Series
Remember WENN
1996 · Series
Heavy
1995 · Movie
Money Train
1995 · Movie
Two Bits
1995 · Movie
Batman Forever
1995 · Movie
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994 · Movie
ER
1994 · Series
Chicago Hope
1994 · Series
Natural Born Killers
1994 · Movie
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · Movie
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Movie
Moon Over Miami
1993 · Series
Household Saints
1993 · Movie
Taking the Heat
1993 · Movie
Benny & Joon
1993 · Movie
Class of '96
1993 · Series
Sinatra
1992 · Series
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Movie
Primary Motive
1992 · Movie
City of Hope
1991 · Movie
WIOU
1990 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Presumed Innocent
1990 · Movie
Capital News
1990 · Series
Kojak: Ariana
1989 · Movie
Perfect Witness
1989 · Movie
The Feud
1989 · Movie
Chances Are
1989 · Movie
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · Movie
Roseanne
1988 · Series
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1988 · Movie
Big Business
1988 · Movie
Ironweed
1987 · Movie
Moonstruck
1987 · Movie
Matewan
1987 · Movie
One Police Plaza
1986 · Movie
L.A. Law
1986 · Series
Matlock
1986 · Series
F/X
1986 · Movie
Bad Medicine
1985 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
Brewster's Millions
1985 · Movie
Moonlighting
1985 · Series
The Flamingo Kid
1984 · Movie
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984 · Movie
Splash
1984 · Movie
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983 · Movie
Still of the Night
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
The Elephant Man
1982 · Movie
The 6th Annual Young Comedians
1981 · Movie
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981 · Movie
The Gentleman Bandit
1981 · Movie
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Series
Hide in Plain Sight
1980 · Movie
Something Short of Paradise
1979 · Movie
The Deer Hunter
1978 · Movie
On the Yard
1978 · Movie
Secret Service
1977 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series