Joe Grifasi
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.
108 acting credits
Acting · 108
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
ER
1994
The Good Wife
2009
Elementary
2012
Hill Street Blues
1981
The Practice
1997
Chicago Hope
1994
Great Performances
1971
New Amsterdam
2018
Bull
2016
The Good Fight
2017
The Equalizer
1985
Matlock
1986
L.A. Law
1986
Early Edition
1996
Evil
2019
Moonlighting
1985
Hope & Faith
2003
Conviction
2006
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
Remember WENN
1996
The Deer Hunter
1978
13 Going on 30
2004
Batman Forever
1995
Lodge 49
2018
Deadline
2000
Roseanne
1988
The Beat
2000
Natural Born Killers
1994
Tarzan
2003
Class of '96
1993
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
I Know This Much Is True
2020
Capital News
1990
Splash
1984
Moonstruck
1987
The Bronx Is Burning
2007
Canterbury's Law
2008
Money Train
1995
Changing Lanes
2002
Presumed Innocent
1990
WIOU
1990
Moon Over Miami
1993
Chances Are
1989
F/X
1986
Ironweed
1987
One Fine Day
1996
Brewster's Millions
1985
61*
2001
Benny & Joon
1993
Sinatra
1992
Slow Burn
2005
Some of My Best Friends
2001
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
Still of the Night
1982
Big Business
1988
Auto Focus
2002
Heavy
1995
Matewan
1987
The Other Me
2000
Undue Influence
1996
City of Hope
1991
The Naked Man
1998
The Out-of-Towners
1999
Switching Goals
1999
Two Bits
1995
A Crime
2006
The Front
2010
Citizen Cohn
1992
The Flamingo Kid
1984
Radium Girls
2020
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
Taking the Heat
1993
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1988
Bad Medicine
1985
Baked in Brooklyn
2016
Household Saints
1993
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
Secret Service
1977
Perfect Witness
1989
Something Short of Paradise
1979
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
Shadow of a Doubt
1996
The Gentleman Bandit
1981
Looking for an Echo
2000
The Feud
1989
The Elephant Man
1982
Sunday
1997
The American Side
2016
On the Yard
1978
Endgame
2023
Queenie in Love
2001
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
2006
Primary Motive
1992
No Pay, Nudity
2016
Kojak: Ariana
1989
Me To Play
2021
A Jersey Tale
2004
One Police Plaza
1986
The Last New Yorker
2010
The Deal
1998
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
2022
The 6th Annual Young Comedians
1981
Tornado
2024