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Joe Grifasi

Joe Grifasi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.

Personal information

Birthday

1944-06-14

Birth Place

Buffalo - New York - USA

Movies and TV shows :

13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30

2004

6.8

Movie
61*

61*

2001

7.0

Movie
A Crime

A Crime

2006

5.7

Movie
A Jersey Tale

A Jersey Tale

2004

0.0

Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2014

6.4

Movie
Auto Focus

Auto Focus

2002

6.4

Movie
Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine

1985

5.1

Movie
Baked in Brooklyn

Baked in Brooklyn

2016

5.2

Movie
Batman Forever

Batman Forever

1995

5.4

Movie
Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon

1993

7.0

Movie
Big Business

Big Business

1988

6.3

Movie
Brewster's Millions

Brewster's Millions

1985

6.6

Movie
poster

Bull

2016

7.0

TV
poster

Canterbury's Law

2008

6.3

TV
poster

Capital News

1990

6.0

TV
Chances Are

Chances Are

1989

6.6

Movie
Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

2002

6.3

Movie
poster

Chicago Hope

1994

7.2

TV
Citizen Cohn

Citizen Cohn

1992

6.3

Movie
City of Hope

City of Hope

1991

6.7

Movie
poster

Class of '96

1993

5.0

TV
poster

Conviction

2006

5.8

TV
poster

Deadline

2000

0.0

TV
poster

Early Edition

1996

7.3

TV
poster

Elementary

2012

7.6

TV
Endgame

Endgame

2023

0.0

Movie
poster

ER

1994

7.8

TV
poster

Evil

2019

7.8

TV
F/X

F/X

1986

6.6

Movie
poster

Great Performances

1971

5.2

TV
Heavy

Heavy

1995

6.6

Movie
Hide in Plain Sight

Hide in Plain Sight

1980

5.3

Movie
poster

Hill Street Blues

1981

7.6

TV
Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981

5.1

Movie
poster

Hope & Faith

2003

5.3

TV
Household Saints

Household Saints

1993

6.2

Movie
poster

I Know This Much Is True

2020

7.6

TV
Ironweed

Ironweed

1987

6.3

Movie
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

1994

5.5

Movie
Kojak: Ariana

Kojak: Ariana

1989

6.0

Movie
poster

L.A. Law

1986

7.0

TV
poster

Law & Order

1990

7.4

TV
poster

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

7.9

TV
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

2006

6.6

Movie
poster

Lodge 49

2018

6.7

TV
Looking for an Echo

Looking for an Echo

2000

3.5

Movie
Matewan

Matewan

1987

7.3

Movie
Me To Play

Me To Play

2021

0.0

Movie
Money Train

Money Train

1995

5.8

Movie
poster

Moon Over Miami

1993

7.0

TV
poster

Moonlighting

1985

7.5

TV
Moonstruck

Moonstruck

1987

6.8

Movie
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994

6.5

Movie
Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

1994

7.1

Movie
poster

New Amsterdam

2018

8.4

TV
On the Yard

On the Yard

1978

5.8

Movie
One Fine Day

One Fine Day

1996

6.4

Movie
One Police Plaza

One Police Plaza

1986

0.0

Movie
Perfect Witness

Perfect Witness

1989

7.0

Movie
Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent

1990

6.8

Movie
Primary Motive

Primary Motive

1992

7.0

Movie
Queenie in Love

Queenie in Love

2001

5.9

Movie
Radium Girls

Radium Girls

2020

6.8

Movie
poster

Roseanne

1988

6.8

TV
Secret Service

Secret Service

1977

0.0

Movie
Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt

1996

5.0

Movie
poster

Sinatra

1992

8.0

TV
Slow Burn

Slow Burn

2005

5.3

Movie
poster

Some of My Best Friends

2001

6.2

TV
Something Short of Paradise

Something Short of Paradise

1979

3.0

Movie
Splash

Splash

1984

6.3

Movie
Still of the Night

Still of the Night

1982

5.7

Movie
Sunday

Sunday

1997

5.2

Movie
Switching Goals

Switching Goals

1999

5.9

Movie
Taking the Heat

Taking the Heat

1993

4.8

Movie
poster

Tarzan

2003

7.5

TV
The American Side

The American Side

2016

4.7

Movie
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

1988

6.5

Movie
poster

The Beat

2000

2.0

TV
poster

The Bronx Is Burning

2007

7.1

TV
The Deal

The Deal

1998

5.0

Movie
The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter

1978

8.0

Movie
The Dreams of Rene Sendam

The Dreams of Rene Sendam

2022

1.0

Movie
The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

1982

5.6

Movie
poster

The Equalizer

1985

7.1

TV
The Feud

The Feud

1989

5.3

Movie
The Flamingo Kid

The Flamingo Kid

1984

6.0

Movie
The Front

The Front

2010

5.6

Movie
The Gentleman Bandit

The Gentleman Bandit

1981

6.0

Movie
poster

The Good Fight

2017

7.6

TV
poster

The Good Wife

2009

7.6

TV
The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994

7.1

Movie
The Last New Yorker

The Last New Yorker

2010

6.5

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

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1988

7.3

Movie
The Naked Man

The Naked Man

1998

4.3

Movie
The Other Me

The Other Me

2000

5.7

Movie
The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners

1999

5.8

Movie
The Pope of Greenwich Village

The Pope of Greenwich Village

1984

6.3

Movie
Two Bits

Two Bits

1995

5.7

Movie
Undue Influence

Undue Influence

1996

5.7

Movie
Will There Really Be a Morning?

Will There Really Be a Morning?

1983

7.0

Movie
poster

WIOU

1990

6.0

TV