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 schools 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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Bud Bullard

Movie 1989

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Wyler

Movie 1983

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

Uncle Sam

Movie 2006

Endgame

Nagg

Movie 2023

The Other Me

Conrad

Movie 2000

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

Bartender

Movie 1988

The Deal

Boular

Movie 1998

The Dreams of Rene Sendam

Dr. Bradley

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Something Short of Paradise

Barney Collins

Movie 1979

The Last New Yorker

Jerry

Movie 2010

Queenie in Love

Berthold

Movie 2001

Looking for an Echo

Vic

Movie 2000

F/X

Mickey

Movie 1986

A Jersey Tale

Alphonso "Chunks" Colon

Movie 2004

Shadow of a Doubt

Sidney Sherman

Movie 1996

Primary Motive

Paul Melton

Movie 1992

Natural Born Killers

Deputy Sheriff Duncan Homolka

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Switching Goals

Dave

Movie 1999

Undue Influence

Clem

Movie 1996

Perfect Witness

Breeze

Movie 1989

Household Saints

Frank Manzone

Movie 1993

Sunday

Scottie Elster

Movie 1997

Bad Medicine

Gómez

Movie 1985

One Police Plaza

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Me To Play

Himself

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Ezra Gould

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Dominic Nuzzi

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Kapatkin

Tv 1985

Roseanne

IRS Office Supervisor

Tv 1988

Deadline

Tv 2000

Hill Street Blues

Tv 1981

Canterbury's Law

Tv 2008

Moon Over Miami

Tv 1993

Chicago Hope

Tv 1994

Class of '96

Joe Morrisey

Tv 1993

Elementary

Captain Moretti

Tv 2012

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Hashi Horowitz

Tv 1999

Law & Order

Defense Attorney James Linde

Tv 1990

Bull

Judge Arlen Rand

Tv 2016

Evil

Lombino

Tv 2019

The Beat

Vince Marinelli

Tv 2000

Tarzan

Lieutenant Scott Connor

Tv 2003

Bull

Judge Rand

Tv 2016

Conviction

Judge Harrigan

Tv 2006

The Good Fight

Judge John Mata

Tv 2017

I Know This Much Is True

Steve Falice

Tv 2020

The Equalizer

Lt. Vocek

Tv 1985

Some of My Best Friends

Joe Zito

Tv 2001

Lodge 49

Tv 2018

Capital News

Tv 1990

The Good Wife

Judge John Mata

Tv 2009

New Amsterdam

Lilo Steinhauser

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