
Joe Grifasi
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1944-06-14
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Buffalo - New York - USA
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía

Tornado

Endgame

The Dreams of Rene Sendam

Me To Play

Radium Girls

La innegable verdad

Evil

New Amsterdam

Lodge 49

The Good Fight

No Pay, Nudity

Baked in Brooklyn

Bull

The American Side

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Elementary

Patricia Cornwell: El frente

The Last New Yorker

The Good Wife

Canterbury's Law

The Bronx Is Burning

A Crime

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

NY: Distrito judicial

Slow Burn

A Jersey Tale

El sueño de mi vida

Tarzan

Hope & Faith

Desenfocado

Al límite de la verdad

Queenie in Love

61*

Some of My Best Friends

Looking for an Echo

Deadline

Proyecto Clon

The Beat

Campeonas por igual

Ley y orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales

Forasteros en Nueva York

The Naked Man

The Deal

Sunday

El abogado

Un día inolvidable
Shadow of a Doubt

Edición anterior

Undue Influence

Remember WENN

Heavy

Asalto al tren del dinero

Two Bits

Batman Forever

Jack Reed: En busca de la justicia

Urgencias

Chicago Hope

Asesinos natos

Agárralo como puedas 33⅓: El insulto final

El gran salto

Household Saints

Moon Over Miami

Taking the Heat

Benny & Joon: El amor de los inocentes

Class of '96

Sinatra

Ciudadano Cohn

Primary Motive

City of Hope

WIOU

Ley y orden

Presunto inocente

Capital News

Kojak: Ariana

Perfect Witness

A tortas con los vecinos

El cielo se equivocó

Agárralo como puedas

Roseanne

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

Ensalada de gemelas

Tallo de hierro

Hechizo de luna

Matewan

One Police Plaza

La ley de Los Ángeles

matlock

FX: Efectos mortales

Los matasanos

The Equalizer

El gran despilfarro

Luz de luna

The Flamingo Kid

Sed de poder

1, 2, 3... Splash

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Bajo sospecha

American Playhouse

The Elephant Man
The 6th Annual Young Comedians

Honky Tonk Freeway

The Gentleman Bandit

Canción triste de Hill Street

Hide in Plain Sight

Cerca del paraíso

El cazador

On the Yard

Secret Service

Great Performances