Joe Grifasi
Biography
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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 info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-06-14
Place of birth
Buffalo - New York - USA
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Cast
City of Hope
1991
6.70
A Crime
2006
5.53
Batman Forever
1995
5.44
The Feud
1989
4.25
Chances Are
1989
6.60
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
7.00
Benny & Joon
1993
7.03
Brewster's Millions
1985
6.60
Presumed Innocent
1990
6.79
One Fine Day
1996
6.40
The Deer Hunter
1978
7.99
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
7.07
Still of the Night
1982
5.72
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
6.30
Two Bits
1995
5.70
The Elephant Man
1982
5.60
Endgame
2023
0.00
The Other Me
2000
5.60
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
5.20
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
5.28
The Front
2010
5.60
The Deal
1998
5.00
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
2022
1.00
Radium Girls
2020
6.50
The Flamingo Kid
1984
6.00
Something Short of Paradise
1979
3.00
The Last New Yorker
2010
6.50
Queenie in Love
2001
5.90
Matewan
1987
7.40
On the Yard
1978
5.80
Splash
1984
6.30
Looking for an Echo
2000
2.67
Big Business
1988
6.30
F/X
1986
6.60
Heavy
1995
6.70
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
6.48
A Jersey Tale
2004
0.00
Money Train
1995
5.80
The American Side
2016
4.74
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
6.40
Shadow of a Doubt
1996
5.00
Kojak: Ariana
1989
6.00
Primary Motive
1992
7.00
13 Going on 30
2004
6.76
Natural Born Killers
1994
7.06
Baked in Brooklyn
2016
5.20
Switching Goals
1999
5.86
The Out-of-Towners
1999
5.80
The Gentleman Bandit
1981
4.75
Undue Influence
1996
5.50
Moonstruck
1987
6.90
Perfect Witness
1989
6.50
Secret Service
1977
0.00
Household Saints
1993
6.50
61*
2001
7.00
Sunday
1997
5.20
Slow Burn
2005
5.30
Bad Medicine
1985
5.10
Citizen Cohn
1992
6.25
Taking the Heat
1993
4.80
Auto Focus
2002
6.40
One Police Plaza
1986
0.00
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994
5.50
The Naked Man
1998
4.00
Changing Lanes
2002
6.30
Me To Play
2021
0.00
Ironweed
1987
6.34