Joe Grifasi
Known For
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 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.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Hashi Horowitz
Law & Order
as Ezra Gould
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney James Linde
Elementary
as Captain Moretti
The Good Wife
as Judge John Mata
Evil
as Lombino
ER
as Tom Williams
Great Performances
as Cpl. Matson
The Practice
as Harry Papp
The Good Fight
as Judge John Mata
Bull
as Judge Arlen Rand
Bull
as Judge Rand
New Amsterdam
as Lilo Steinhauser
Hill Street Blues
as Ronnie Delacroce
The Equalizer
as Lt. Vocek
L.A. Law
as Dominic Nuzzi
Matlock
as Hot Dog Vendor
Chicago Hope
as Larry Ruscetti
Moonlighting
as Kapatkin
Early Edition
as Harry Hawks