Joe Grifasi
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1944-06-14
- Lieu de naissance:
- Buffalo - New York - USA
Biographie
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.
Connu pour
Filmographie
Tornado
Endgame
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
Me To Play
Radium Girls
La Puissance des Vaincus
Evil
New Amsterdam
Lodge 49
The Good Fight
No Pay, Nudity
Baked in Brooklyn
Bull
The American Side
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Elementary
Trompe l’œil
The Last New Yorker
The Good Wife
La Loi de Canterbury
The Bronx Is Burning
Un crime
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
Conviction
Slow Burn
A Jersey Tale
30 ans sinon rien
Jane et Tarzan
La Star de la famille
Auto Focus
Dérapages incontrôlés
Queenie in Love
61*
Some of My Best Friends
Les Légendes de Brooklyn
Deadline
Mon Clone et moi
The Beat
Tel père, telles filles
New York Unité Spéciale
Escapade à New York
The Naked Man
The Deal
Sunday
The Practice : Bobby Donnell & Associés
Un beau jour
Shadow of a Doubt
Demain à la Une
Undue Influence
Remember WENN
Heavy
Money Train
Instant de bonheur
Batman Forever
Jack Reed - A La Recherche De La Justice
Urgences
Chicago Hope
Tueurs nés
Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver Hollywood ?
Le grand saut
Household Saints
Moon Over Miami
Taking the Heat
Benny & Joon
Class of '96
Sinatra
Citizen Cohn
Primary Motive
City of Hope
WIOU
New York Police Judiciaire
Présumé innocent
Capital News
Kojak : Ariana
Perfect Witness
The Feud
Le ciel s'est trompé
Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver la reine ?
Roseanne
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
Quand les jumelles s'emmêlent
Ironweed : La force d'un destin
Éclair de lune
Matewan
Le Bras armé de la loi
La Loi de Los Angeles
Matlock
F/X, effet de choc
Bad Medicine
Equalizer
Comment claquer un million de dollars par jour
Clair de Lune
Le Kid de la plage
Le pape de Greenwich Village
Splash
Will There Really Be a Morning?
La Mort aux enchères
American Playhouse
The Elephant Man
The 6th Annual Young Comedians
Honky Tonk Freeway
The Gentleman Bandit
Capitaine Furillo
L'impossible témoin
Something Short of Paradise
Voyage au bout de l’enfer
On the Yard
Secret Service
Great Performances