Joe Grifasi
70 movies · 37 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 14, 1944 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- Buffalo - New York - USA
- Also known as
- Joseph G. Grifasi · Joseph Grifasi
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 5.5 Batman Forever
1995 · Film
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★ 6.8 13 Going on 30
2004 · Film
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★ 7.3 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · Film
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★ 8.0 The Deer Hunter
1978 · Film
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★ 8.0 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · TV
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★ 7.0 Natural Born Killers
1994 · Film
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★ 6.5 Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · Film
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★ 7.6 Elementary
2012 · TV
Joe Grifasi: movies and TV shows
Acting (107)
- 2024 Tornado
as Rich
- 2023 Endgame
as Nagg
- 2022 The Dreams of Rene Sendam
as Dr. Bradley
- 2020 Radium Girls
as Grandpa
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016 No Pay, Nudity
as Mr. Davenport
- 2016 Baked in Brooklyn
as David's Dad
- 2016
- 2016 The American Side
as The Serb
- 2014 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Peter Quince
- 2012
- 2010 The Front
as Mr. Zeffirelli
- 2010 The Last New Yorker
as Jerry
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006 A Crime
as Bill
- 2006 Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
as Uncle Sam
- 2006
- 2005 Slow Burn
as Desk Sgt. Drown
- 2004 A Jersey Tale
as Alphonso "Chunks" Colon
- 2004 13 Going on 30
as Mr. Flamhaff
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002 Auto Focus
as Strip Club M.C.
- 2002 Changing Lanes
as Judge Cosell
- 2001 Queenie in Love
as Berthold
- 2001 61*
as Phil Rizzuto
- 2001
- 2000 Looking for an Echo
as Vic
- 2000
- 2000 The Other Me
as Conrad
- 2000
- 1999 Switching Goals
as Dave
- 1999
- 1999 The Out-of-Towners
as Arresting Cop
- 1998 The Naked Man
as Koski
- 1998 The Deal
as Boular
- 1997 Sunday
as Scottie Elster
- 1997
- 1996 One Fine Day
as Manny Feldstein
- 1996 Shadow of a Doubt
as Sidney Sherman
- 1996
- 1996
- 1996
- 1995 Heavy
as Leo
- 1995 Money Train
as Riley
- 1995 Two Bits
as Uncle Joe
- 1995 Batman Forever
as Bank Guard
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994 Natural Born Killers
as Deputy Sheriff Duncan Homolka
- 1994 Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
as Director
- 1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
as Lou
- 1993 Household Saints
as Frank Manzone
- 1993
- 1993 Taking the Heat
as Lou Valentine
- 1993 Benny & Joon
as Mike
- 1993
- 1992
- 1992 Citizen Cohn
as Gerald Walpin
- 1992 Primary Motive
as Paul Melton
- 1991 City of Hope
as Pauly
- 1990
- 1990
- 1990 Presumed Innocent
as Tommy Molto
- 1990
- 1989 Kojak: Ariana
as Lieutenant Rastelli
- 1989 Perfect Witness
as Breeze
- 1989 The Feud
as Bud Bullard
- 1989 Chances Are
as Omar
- 1988
- 1988
- 1988 The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
as Bartender
- 1988 Big Business
as Desk Clerk
- 1987 Ironweed
as Jack
- 1987 Moonstruck
as Shy Waiter
- 1987 Matewan
as Fausto
- 1986 One Police Plaza
as Insp. Nicolas Zambrano
- 1986
- 1986
- 1986 F/X
as Mickey
- 1985 Bad Medicine
as Gómez
- 1985
- 1985 Brewster's Millions
as J.B. Donaldo
- 1985
- 1984 The Flamingo Kid
as Mario Minetta
- 1984 The Pope of Greenwich Village
as Jimmy the Cheese Man
- 1984 Splash
as Manny
- 1983 Will There Really Be a Morning?
as Wyler
- 1982 Still of the Night
as Joseph Vitucci
- 1982
- 1982 The Elephant Man
as Pinhead Manager
- 1981 Honky Tonk Freeway
as Osvaldo
- 1981 The Gentleman Bandit
as Det. Esposito
- 1981
- 1980 Hide in Plain Sight
as Matty Stanek
- 1979 Something Short of Paradise
as Barney Collins
- 1978 The Deer Hunter
as Bandleader
- 1978 On the Yard
as Morris
- 1977 Secret Service
as Cpl. Matson
- 1971
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2021
- 1981