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Joe Grifasi

Acting · Born June 14, 1944 · Buffalo - New York - USA

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.

Movies with Joe Grifasi

• 13 Going on 30 (2004) — Mr. Flamhaff
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) — Foreman
• The Deer Hunter (1978) — Bandleader
• Batman Forever (1995) — Bank Guard
• Natural Born Killers (1994) — Deputy Sheriff Duncan Homolka
• Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) — Director
• Moonstruck (1987) — Shy Waiter
• Money Train (1995) — Riley
• Presumed Innocent (1990) — Tommy Molto
• Changing Lanes (2002) — Judge Cosell
• Benny & Joon (1993) — Mike
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) — Lou

TV shows with Joe Grifasi

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Hashi Horowitz
• L.A. Law (1986) — Dominic Nuzzi
• Lodge 49 (2018)
• The Bronx Is Burning (2007) — Yogi Berra
• WIOU (1990) — Tony Pro