Joe Grifasi
Acting
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…
Filmography
80
Tornado
2024
Endgame
2023
The Dreams of Rene Sendam
2022
Radium Girls
2020
I Know This Much Is True
2020
Evil
2019
New Amsterdam
2018
Lodge 49
2018
The Good Fight
2017
No Pay, Nudity
2016
Baked in Brooklyn
2016
Bull
2016
The American Side
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
Elementary
2012
The Front
2010
The Last New Yorker
2010
The Good Wife
2009
Canterbury's Law
2008
The Bronx Is Burning
2007
A Crime
2006
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
2006
Conviction
2006
Slow Burn
2005
A Jersey Tale
2004
13 Going on 30
2004
Tarzan
2003
Hope & Faith
2003
Auto Focus
2002
Changing Lanes
2002
Queenie in Love
2001
61*
2001
Some of My Best Friends
2001
Looking for an Echo
2000
Deadline
2000
The Other Me
2000
The Beat
2000
Switching Goals
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Out-of-Towners
1999
The Naked Man
1998
The Deal
1998
Sunday
1997
The Practice
1997
One Fine Day
1996
Shadow of a Doubt
1996
Early Edition
1996
Undue Influence
1996
Remember WENN
1996
Heavy
1995
Money Train
1995
Two Bits
1995
Batman Forever
1995
Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
1994
ER
1994
Chicago Hope
1994
Natural Born Killers
1994
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
Household Saints
1993
Moon Over Miami
1993
Taking the Heat
1993
Benny & Joon
1993
Class of '96
1993
Sinatra
1992
Citizen Cohn
1992
Primary Motive
1992
City of Hope
1991
WIOU
1990
Law & Order
1990
Presumed Innocent
1990
Capital News
1990
Kojak: Ariana
1989
Perfect Witness
1989
The Feud
1989
Chances Are
1989
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
Roseanne
1988
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1988
Big Business
1988
