Joe Grifasi

Acting · Born 1944-06-14 in Buffalo - New York - USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Benny & Joon as Mike
• The Deer Hunter as Bandleader
• The Hudsucker Proxy as Lou
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! as Foreman
• Natural Born Killers as Deputy Sheriff Duncan Homolka
• City of Hope as Pauly
• A Crime as Bill
• Batman Forever as Bank Guard
• The Feud as Bud Bullard
• Chances Are as Omar

TV

• ER as Tom Williams
• Elementary as Captain Moretti
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Hashi Horowitz
• Evil as Lombino
• New Amsterdam as Lilo Steinhauser
• The Practice as Harry Papp
• Hill Street Blues as Ronnie Delacroce
• Law & Order as Ezra Gould
• L.A. Law as Dominic Nuzzi
• Hope & Faith as Leo