🎬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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Radium Girls (2020)	Grandpa		8
2	Baked in Brooklyn (2016)	David's Dad		6.8
3	The American Side (2016)	The Serb		6.5
4	A Crime (2006)	Bill		5
5	Slow Burn (2005)	Desk Sgt. Drown		3
6	13 Going on 30 (2004)	Mr. Flamhaff		6.4
7	Changing Lanes (2002)	Judge Cosell		6.5
8	Auto Focus (2002)	Strip Club M.C.		6.5
9	61* (2001)	Phil Rizzuto	-	-
10	The Other Me (2000)	Conrad	-	-
11	The Out-of-Towners (1999)	Arresting Cop		5
12	Switching Goals (1999)	Dave		5
13	The Naked Man (1998)	Koski	-	-
14	Sunday (1997)	Scottie Elster		6
15	One Fine Day (1996)	Manny Feldstein		6.6
16	Two Bits (1995)	Uncle Joe		7
17	Money Train (1995)	Riley		6.1
18	Heavy (1995)	Leo	-	-
19	Batman Forever (1995)	Bank Guard		5.6
20	The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)	Lou		6.8
21	Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)	Director		6.8
22	Natural Born Killers (1994)	Deputy Sheriff Duncan Homolka		7.3
23	Jack Reed: A Search for Justice (1994)	-		5
24	Household Saints (1993)	Frank Manzone		5
25	Benny & Joon (1993)	Mike		6.3
26	City of Hope (1991)	Pauly		6
27	Presumed Innocent (1990)	Tommy Molto		6
28	Perfect Witness (1989)	Breeze	-	-
29	Chances Are (1989)	Omar		5
30	Big Business (1988)	Desk Clerk		8.4
31	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)	Foreman		7.6
32	Moonstruck (1987)	Shy Waiter		7.1
33	Ironweed (1987)	Jack	-	-
34	Matewan (1987)	Fausto		8
35	F/X (1986)	Mickey		7
36	Bad Medicine (1985)	Gómez	-	-
37	Brewster's Millions (1985)	J.B. Donaldo		7.2
38	Splash (1984)	Manny		6.3
39	The Flamingo Kid (1984)	Mario Minetta	-	-
40	The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)	Jimmy the Cheese Man		6.5
41	Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)	Wyler	-	-
42	Still of the Night (1982)	Joseph Vitucci		2
43	Hide in Plain Sight (1980)	Matty Stanek	-	-
44	The Deer Hunter (1978)	Bandleader		7.7