Joe Grifasi
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.651 |
| Birthday | 1944-06-14 |
| Place of Birth | Buffalo - New York - USA |
| Also Known As | Joseph G. Grifasi, Joseph Grifasi , |
1991
City of Hope
6.7/33
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2006
A Crime
5.7/35
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A Crime
1995
Batman Forever
5.434/5123
Batman must battle a disfigured district attorney and a disgruntled former employee with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat.
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Batman Forever
1989
The Feud
5.3/3
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The Feud
1989
Chances Are
6.6/259
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and...
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Chances Are
1983
Will There Really Be a Morning?
7/2
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
1993
Benny & Joon
7/747
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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Benny & Joon
1985
Brewster's Millions
6.6/583
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Brewster's Millions
1990
Presumed Innocent
6.789/679
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Presumed Innocent
1996
One Fine Day
6.443/647
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One Fine Day
1978
The Deer Hunter
7.998/3787
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The Deer Hunter
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
7.1/1036
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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The Hudsucker Proxy
1982
Still of the Night
5.7/124
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Still of the Night
1984
The Pope of Greenwich Village
6.3/132
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1995
Two Bits
5.697/59
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Two Bits
1982
The Elephant Man
5.6/8
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2006
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
6.6/33
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2023
Endgame
0/0
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2000
The Other Me
5.7/78
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The Other Me
1981
Honky Tonk Freeway
5.1/19
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Honky Tonk Freeway
1980
Hide in Plain Sight
5.3/15
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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2010
The Front
5.6/17
A detective uncovers a sinister conspiracy when he is sent to research a disintegrating neighborhood for a public relations campaign.
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1988
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
6.4/13
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The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1998
The Deal
5/2
A big-idea farce about big, badass businessmen.
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The Deal
2022
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
1/1
Rene Sendam is deeply troubled. A lonely graduate student studying poetry and an often alienating eccentric, Rene leads a fantasy life built on delusi...
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2020
Radium Girls
6.7/38
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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1984
The Flamingo Kid
6/81
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1979
Something Short of Paradise
3/3
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Something Short of Paradise
2010
The Last New Yorker
6.5/2
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2001
Queenie in Love
5.9/8
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.
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Queenie in Love
1987
Matewan
7.3/105
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Matewan
1978
On the Yard
5.8/6
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1984
Splash
6.3/1334
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2000
Looking for an Echo
3.5/2
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1988
Big Business
6.3/260
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Big Business
1988
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
7.252/3652
When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1986
F/X
6.6/425
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross hi...
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F/X
1995
Heavy
6.6/74
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Heavy
1994
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.5/2034
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2004
A Jersey Tale
0/0
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1995
Money Train
5.8/755
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2016
The American Side
4.7/43
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2014
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.4/11
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
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1996
Shadow of a Doubt
5/1
Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdau...
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1989
Kojak: Ariana
6/1
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash y...
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1992
Primary Motive
7/1
In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate's idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the n...
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2004
13 Going on 30
6.8/5093
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13 Going on 30
1994
Natural Born Killers
7.067/3379
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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2016
Baked in Brooklyn
5.2/108
A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of h...
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Baked in Brooklyn
1999
Switching Goals
5.9/205
Twin sisters Emma and Sam come up with a scheme to switch places so each can play in the soccer team they prefer.
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Switching Goals
1999
The Out-of-Towners
5.732/222
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
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The Out-of-Towners
1981
The Gentleman Bandit
6/2
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
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The Gentleman Bandit
1996
Undue Influence
5.7/3
When a senator's new wife is murdered, the prime suspect is his ex-wife, Laurel. Laurel's brother-in-law, lawyer Paul Madriani, still reeling from th...
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Undue Influence
1987
Moonstruck
6.8/920
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...
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Moonstruck
1989
Perfect Witness
7/3
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Q...
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Perfect Witness
1977
Secret Service
0/0
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
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Secret Service
1993
Household Saints
6.2/9
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
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Household Saints
2001
61*
6.9/127
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61*
1997
Sunday
5.2/9
Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.
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2005
Slow Burn
5.3/75
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Slow Burn
1985
Bad Medicine
5.1/35
Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But then...
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Bad Medicine
1992
Citizen Cohn
6.3/21
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Citizen Cohn
1993
Taking the Heat
4.8/4
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but...
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Taking the Heat
2002
Auto Focus
6.365/196
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona...
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Auto Focus
1986
One Police Plaza
0/0
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
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One Police Plaza
1994
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
5.5/12
Chicago police detective Jack Reed investigates the brutal murder of a stripper while he deals with corruption and bureaucracy within his own departme...
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Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1998
The Naked Man
4.3/9
A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.
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The Naked Man
2002
Changing Lanes
6.3/1085
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Changing Lanes
2021
Me To Play
0/0
As their bodies give way to Parkinson's disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett's "Endgame," t...
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1987
Ironweed
6.351/121
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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