Actor | Producer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph G. 'Joe' Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor o...
City of Hope
... 1991
Presumed Innocent
... 1990
Baked in Brooklyn
... 2016
One Fine Day
... 1996
Batman Forever
... 1995
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Blonde
... 2022
Flicka
... 2006
Sayen
... 2023
Arn: The Knight Templar
... 2007
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
... 2008
You Get Me
... 2017
The Medallion
... 2003
Guns of Eden
... 2022
Siphayo
... 2016