Joe Grifasi
Gender: Male
Born: 14th June 1944 (currently 67 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: WIOU
Movies: 61*, Chances Are, The Other Me, Switching Goals, Heavy, The Deer Hunter, Money Train, Sunday, Changing Lanes, One Fine Day, Steve Martini: Undue Influence, Dark Matter, The Pope of Greenwich Village, F/X, The Hudsucker Proxy, 13 Going on 30, Presumed Innocent, Under New Management, Honky Tonk Freeway, Shadow of a Doubt , Something Short of Paradise, Creating Karma, The Last New Yorker, A Jersey Tale, A Crime, Brewster's Millions, Blood on Her Hands, Two Bits, Looking for an Echo, Jack Reed: A Search for Justice, Perfect Witness, Still of the Night, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Benny & Joon, Bad Medicine
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.
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