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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.
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04 January 1982
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
16 June 1995
Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, and the Riddler, a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents.
13 April 2004
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty.
15 September 1993
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
02 August 1992
In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate's idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies.
08 December 1978
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love.
02 December 1988
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
22 November 1985
Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school.
18 March 1994
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes.
12 January 1977
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
06 June 1993
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police.
26 August 1994
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
16 December 1987
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him.
09 March 1984
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
10 March 1989
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road.
28 April 2001
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated.
27 July 1990
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime.
21 November 1995
When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.
07 April 2002
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives.
23 October 2020
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
12 September 2001
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.
08 September 2014
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
07 February 1986
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster.
02 November 1989
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective.
18 December 1987
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
22 May 1985
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to.
30 September 1989
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville.
16 April 1993
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
29 December 1995
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo.
16 September 1978
Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill.
02 April 1999
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
11 March 1994
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
20 December 1996
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced.
25 June 2004
Jersey City teen Ray Ray Morales is wasting time in a low paying job until a local loan shark offers him a job — making sure that Ray Ray's friend, an immigrant pawnbroker makes his weekly payments.
10 June 1988
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night.
01 May 1997
Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.
28 August 1987
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage.
19 November 1982
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information.
28 October 1989
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime.
18 October 2002
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter.
04 November 2016
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy, & Boyd Gaines) finds out that the way out is through.
08 September 2000
When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely get an A.
21 August 1981
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town.
22 June 1984
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on.
12 September 2005
A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.
21 December 1984
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club.
02 August 1998
A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.
26 May 2010
A detective uncovers a sinister conspiracy when he is sent to research a disintegrating neighborhood for a public relations campaign.
03 December 1996
Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder.
29 November 1986
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
11 September 2006
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy.
10 November 2000
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.
06 May 1981
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
22 August 1992
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
11 October 1991
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father.
14 October 2016
A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm.
01 January 1998
A big-idea farce about big, badass businessmen.
06 October 2024
A struggling contractor risks his young sons' well-being to cut a sweet deal.
22 February 1983
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
14 April 2023
Endgame tells the story of Hamm, who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound.
