Joe Grifasi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

109

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-06-14 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Buffalo - New York - USA

Joe 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.

Known For

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • Law & Order

    Law & Order

  • Law & Order

    Law & Order

  • Great Performances

    Great Performances

  • The Good Wife

    The Good Wife

  • Elementary

    Elementary

  • ER

    ER

  • The Practice

    The Practice

  • Bull

    Bull

  • Bull

    Bull

  • The Good Fight

    The Good Fight

  • Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues

  • New Amsterdam

    New Amsterdam

  • Evil

    Evil

  • Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

  • Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

  • The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

  • Early Edition

    Early Edition

  • L.A. Law

    L.A. Law

  • 13 Going on 30

    13 Going on 30

  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

  • Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

    Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

  • Hope & Faith

    Hope & Faith

  • Conviction

    Conviction

  • Batman Forever

    Batman Forever

  • Remember WENN

    Remember WENN

  • The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter

  • Brewster's Millions

    Brewster's Millions

  • WIOU

    WIOU

  • I Know This Much Is True

    I Know This Much Is True

  • Lodge 49

    Lodge 49

  • Splash

    Splash

  • The Hudsucker Proxy

    The Hudsucker Proxy

  • Money Train

    Money Train

  • A Crime

    A Crime

  • Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent

  • Roseanne

    Roseanne

  • The Beat

    The Beat

  • City of Hope

    City of Hope

  • Hide in Plain Sight

    Hide in Plain Sight

  • Natural Born Killers

    Natural Born Killers

  • Baked in Brooklyn

    Baked in Brooklyn

  • Will There Really Be a Morning?

    Will There Really Be a Morning?

  • Honky Tonk Freeway

    Honky Tonk Freeway

  • The Bronx Is Burning

    The Bronx Is Burning

  • The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man

  • Changing Lanes

    Changing Lanes

  • Tarzan

    Tarzan

  • 61*

    61*

  • Deadline

    Deadline

  • Big Business

    Big Business

  • Still of the Night

    Still of the Night

  • Capital News

    Capital News

  • Class of '96

    Class of '96

  • Benny & Joon

    Benny & Joon

  • Chances Are

    Chances Are

  • Switching Goals

    Switching Goals

  • Primary Motive

    Primary Motive

  • Perfect Witness

    Perfect Witness

  • Ironweed

    Ironweed

  • Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

    Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

  • Moonstruck

    Moonstruck

  • Heavy

    Heavy

  • The Other Me

    The Other Me

  • Taking the Heat

    Taking the Heat

  • One Fine Day

    One Fine Day

  • Endgame

    Endgame

  • F/X

    F/X

  • The American Side

    The American Side

  • Canterbury's Law

    Canterbury's Law

  • The Pope of Greenwich Village

    The Pope of Greenwich Village

  • Bad Medicine

    Bad Medicine

  • Moon Over Miami

    Moon Over Miami

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt

  • Undue Influence

    Undue Influence

  • Slow Burn

    Slow Burn

  • The Last New Yorker

    The Last New Yorker

  • Auto Focus

    Auto Focus

  • A Jersey Tale

    A Jersey Tale

  • The Flamingo Kid

    The Flamingo Kid

  • Sinatra

    Sinatra

  • Secret Service

    Secret Service

  • Household Saints

    Household Saints

  • Citizen Cohn

    Citizen Cohn

  • Kojak: Ariana

    Kojak: Ariana

  • Some of My Best Friends

    Some of My Best Friends

  • The Out-of-Towners

    The Out-of-Towners

  • The Front

    The Front

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Matewan

    Matewan

  • Queenie in Love

    Queenie in Love

  • Two Bits

    Two Bits

  • Me To Play

    Me To Play

  • Looking for an Echo

    Looking for an Echo

  • On the Yard

    On the Yard

  • The Naked Man

    The Naked Man

  • The Feud

    The Feud

  • No Pay, Nudity

    No Pay, Nudity

  • Radium Girls

    Radium Girls

  • The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

    The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

  • Sunday

    Sunday

  • One Police Plaza

    One Police Plaza

  • Something Short of Paradise

    Something Short of Paradise

  • Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

    Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

  • The Dreams of Rene Sendam

    The Dreams of Rene Sendam

  • The Gentleman Bandit

    The Gentleman Bandit

  • The 6th Annual Young Comedians

    The 6th Annual Young Comedians

  • Tornado

    Tornado

  • The Deal

    The Deal