Biography
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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.
Filmography
all 98
Movies 71
TV Shows 27
self 2
Director 1
Endgame (2023)
The Dreams of Rene Sendam (2022)
Me To Play (2021)
Radium Girls (2020)
I Know This Much Is True (2020)
Evil (2019)
Lodge 49 (2018)
Baked in Brooklyn (2016)
Bull (2016)
The American Side (2016)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)
Elementary (2012)
Basic Black: The Lewis Black Story (2010)
The Front (2010)
The Last New Yorker (2010)
Canterbury's Law (2008)
The Bronx Is Burning (2007)
A Crime (2006)
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed (2006)
Conviction (2006)
Slow Burn (2005)
A Jersey Tale (2004)
13 Going on 30 (2004)
Hope & Faith (2003)
Auto Focus (2002)
Changing Lanes (2002)
Grasp (2002)
Queenie in Love (2001)
61* (2001)
Some of My Best Friends (2001)
Looking for an Echo (2000)
Deadline (2000)
The Other Me (2000)
The Beat (2000)
Switching Goals (1999)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
The Naked Man (1998)
The Deal (1998)
Sunday (1997)
One Fine Day (1996)
Shadow of a Doubt (1996)
Early Edition (1996)
Undue Influence (1996)
Heavy (1995)
Money Train (1995)
Two Bits (1995)
Batman Forever (1995)
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice (1994)
ER (1994)
Chicago Hope (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Household Saints (1993)
Moon Over Miami (1993)
Taking the Heat (1993)
Benny & Joon (1993)
Class of '96 (1993)
Sinatra (1992)
Citizen Cohn (1992)
Primary Motive (1992)
City of Hope (1991)
WIOU (1990)
Law & Order (1990)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Kojak: Ariana (1989)
Perfect Witness (1989)
The Feud (1989)
Chances Are (1989)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Roseanne (1988)
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1988)
Big Business (1988)
Ironweed (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Matewan (1987)
One Police Plaza (1986)
L.A. Law (1986)
F/X (1986)
Bad Medicine (1985)
The Equalizer (1985)
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Moonlighting (1985)
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Splash (1984)
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Still of the Night (1982)
The Elephant Man (1982)
Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
The Gentleman Bandit (1981)
Hill Street Blues (1981)
Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
Something Short of Paradise (1979)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
On the Yard (1978)
Secret Service (1977)
Great Performances (1971)
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GenderMale
Birthday1944-06-14 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceBuffalo, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJoseph G. Grifasi, Joseph Grifasi
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