Joe Grifasi
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 Drood, A Memory of Two Mondays, Boy Meets Girl, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The 1940’s Radio Hour and Happy End. His off-Broadway credits include Conversations in Tusculum, The Boys Next Door (Drama Desk Nomination), Once Around the City, Golden Boy, Filumena and Says I, Says He.
He has been married to jazz soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom, whom he met while studying at the Yale School of Drama, since 1974.
Acting
Movie
Batman Forever
as Bank Guard
1995
Movie
13 Going on 30
as Mr. Flamhaff
2004
Movie
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
as Foreman
1988
Movie
The Deer Hunter
as Bandleader
1978
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Hashi Horowitz
1999
Movie
Natural Born Killers
as Deputy Sheriff Duncan Homolka
1994
Movie
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
as Director
1994
TV
Elementary
as Captain Moretti
2012
Movie
Splash
as Manny
1984
Movie
Changing Lanes
as Judge Cosell
2002
Movie
The Hudsucker Proxy
as Lou
1994
Movie
Moonstruck
as Shy Waiter
1987
TV
New Amsterdam
as Lilo Steinhauser
2018
TV
Evil
as Lombino
2019
TV
ER
as Tom Williams
1994
Movie
Money Train
as Riley
1995
Movie
Benny & Joon
as Mike
1993
Movie
Presumed Innocent
as Tommy Molto
1990
Movie
One Fine Day
as Manny Feldstein
1996
TV
Law & Order
as Ezra Gould
1990
TV
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney James Linde
1990
TV
The Good Wife
as Judge John Mata
2009
Movie
Brewster's Millions
as J.B. Donaldo
1985
Movie
F/X
as Mickey
1986