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Joe Grifasi
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 studyin…
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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.
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2024
Tornado
Movie Rich
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2023
Endgame
Movie Nagg
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2022
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
Movie Dr. Bradley
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2021
Me To Play
Movie Himself
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2020
Radium Girls
Movie Grandpa
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2020
I Know This Much Is True
TV show Steve Falice
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2019
Evil
TV show Lombino
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2018
New Amsterdam
TV show Lilo Steinhauser
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2018
Lodge 49
TV show
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2017
The Good Fight
TV show Judge John Mata
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2016
No Pay, Nudity
Movie Mr. Davenport
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2016
Baked in Brooklyn
Movie David's Dad
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2016
Bull
TV show Judge Arlen Rand
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2016
The American Side
Movie The Serb
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2014
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie Peter Quince
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2012
Elementary
TV show Captain Moretti
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2010
The Front
Movie Mr. Zeffirelli
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2010
The Last New Yorker
Movie Jerry
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2009
The Good Wife
TV show Judge John Mata
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2008
Canterbury's Law
TV show
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2007
The Bronx Is Burning
TV show Yogi Berra
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2006
A Crime
Movie Bill
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2006
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
Movie Uncle Sam
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2006
Conviction
TV show Judge Harrigan
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2005
Slow Burn
Movie Desk Sgt. Drown
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2004
A Jersey Tale
Movie Alphonso "Chunks" Colon
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2004
13 Going on 30
Movie Mr. Flamhaff
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2003
Tarzan
TV show Lieutenant Scott Connor
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2003
Hope & Faith
TV show Leo
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2002
Auto Focus
Movie Strip Club M.C.
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2002
Changing Lanes
Movie Judge Cosell
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2001
Queenie in Love
Movie Berthold
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2001
61*
Movie Phil Rizzuto
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2001
Some of My Best Friends
TV show Joe Zito
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2000
Looking for an Echo
Movie Vic
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2000
Deadline
TV show Mike Phelan
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2000
The Other Me
Movie Conrad
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2000
The Beat
TV show Vince Marinelli
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1999
Switching Goals
Movie Dave
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Hashi Horowitz
