Joe Grifasi
Popularity:0.789
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1944-06-14
Place of Birth:Buffalo - New York - USA
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Also Known As:Joseph G. Grifasi, Joseph Grifasi

City of Hope (1991)
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who...

A Crime (2006)
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a...

Batman Forever (1995)
Batman must battle a disfigured district attorney and a disgruntled former employee with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat.

The Feud (1989)
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between...

Chances Are (1989)
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and...

Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

Benny & Joon (1993)
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Brewster's Millions (1985)
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days...

Presumed Innocent (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. And his...

One Fine Day (1996)
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one...

The Deer Hunter (1978)
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they...

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Still of the Night (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....

The Pope of Greenwich Village (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....

Two Bits (1995)
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding...

The Elephant Man (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.

Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed (2006)
Lewis Black stars in his second HBO solo special, an all-new hour of frenetic, take-no-prisoners stand-up comedy, taped before a live audience at the...

Endgame (2023)
Endgame tells the story of Hamm, who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound. His only escape from his solitary...

The Other Me (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...

Honky Tonk Freeway (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...

Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.

The Front (2010)
A detective uncovers a sinister conspiracy when he is sent to research a disintegrating neighborhood for a public relations campaign.

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1988)
Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an...

The Deal (1998)
A big-idea farce about big, badass businessmen.

The Dreams of Rene Sendam (2022)
Rene Sendam is deeply troubled. A lonely graduate student studying poetry and an often alienating eccentric, Rene leads a fantasy life built on...

Radium Girls (2020)
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

The Flamingo Kid (1984)
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh...

Something Short of Paradise (1979)
A young couple in New York are having problems with their relationship.

The Last New Yorker (2010)
Lifelong friends Lenny Sugarman and Ruben Liebner , both in their 70s, both dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, barely recognize the Manhattan of their...

Queenie in Love (2001)
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.

Matewan (1987)
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

On the Yard (1978)
Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's...

Splash (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...

Looking for an Echo (2000)
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.

Big Business (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. One set to a poor...

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

F/X (1986)
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross...

Heavy (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...

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (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...

A Jersey Tale (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...

Money Train (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.

The American Side (2016)
Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic...

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

Shadow of a Doubt (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...

Kojak: Ariana (1989)
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash...

Primary Motive (1992)
In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate's idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the...

13 Going on 30 (2004)
A girl who's sick of the social strictures of junior high is transformed into a grownup overnight. In this feel-good fairy tale, teenager Jenna wants...

Natural Born Killers (1994)
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Baked in Brooklyn (2016)
A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of...

Switching Goals (1999)
Twin sisters Emma and Sam come up with a scheme to switch places so each can play in the soccer team they prefer.

The Out-of-Towners (1999)
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.

The Gentleman Bandit (1981)
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.

Undue Influence (1996)
When a senator's new wife is murdered, the prime suspect is his ex-wife, Laurel. Laurel's brother-in-law, lawyer Paul Madriani, still reeling from...

Moonstruck (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,...

Perfect Witness (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...

Secret Service (1977)
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.

Household Saints (1993)
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

61* (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...

Sunday (1997)
Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.

Slow Burn (2005)
A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an...

Bad Medicine (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. But...

Citizen Cohn (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...

Taking the Heat (1993)
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but...

Auto Focus (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...

One Police Plaza (1986)
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.

Jack Reed: A Search for Justice (1994)
Chicago police detective Jack Reed investigates the brutal murder of a stripper while he deals with corruption and bureaucracy within his own...

The Naked Man (1998)
A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.

Changing Lanes (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...

Me To Play (2021)
As their bodies give way to Parkinson's disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett's "Endgame,"...

Ironweed (1987)
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

Law & Order (1990)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

L.A. Law (1986)
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

Hope & Faith (2003)
Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the...

Early Edition (1996)
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the...

Moonlighting (1985)
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

Roseanne (1988)
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.

Deadline (2000)
Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the...

Hill Street Blues (1981)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Canterbury's Law (2008)
Elizabeth Canterbury is a force of nature. An attorney on the rise, she puts her career on the line to take on risky and unpopular cases, even when...

Chicago Hope (1994)
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

Moon Over Miami (1993)
Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.

ER (1994)
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened...

WIOU (1990)
WIOU is an American television drama series, which aired on CBS in 1990 and 1991. The show is set in the news department of a fictional television...

Class of '96 (1993)
Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the...

Elementary (2012)
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

The Bronx Is Burning (2007)
In the summer of 1977, New York was a city in crisis. Paralyzed by a citywide blackout, political strife, and the Son of Sam killing spree, the Big...

Sinatra (1992)
Sinatra is a 1992 CBS miniseries biography and drama, starring Philip Casnoff as singer Frank Sinatra, developed and executive produced by Frank's...

Law & Order (1990)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

Bull (2016)
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.

Evil (2019)
Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed...

The Beat (2000)
The Beat delves into the personal and professional lives of two young police recruits who patrol New York's streets. The city's daily machinations...

Tarzan (2003)
From the day two decades ago that young John Clayton's parents died and left him alone in the African jungle, he was raised by apes and has emerged...

Bull (2016)
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.

Conviction (2006)
A fast-paced character-oriented story, focuses on the lives and loves of the young assistant district attorneys in New York, following their career...

The Good Fight (2017)
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a...

I Know This Much Is True (2020)
The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the...

The Equalizer (1985)
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

Some of My Best Friends (2001)
Some of My Best Friends is an American sitcom shown on CBS from February 28 until April 11, 2001. The series was inspired by the film Kiss Me, Guido.

Lodge 49 (2018)
Dud is a deadbeat but charming ex-surfer who joins a fraternal order hoping to reclaim the simple, happy lifestyle he lost when his father died....

Capital News (1990)
Capital News is a short-lived American drama series that aired on ABC in 1990. Starring Lloyd Bridges and Helen Slater, Capital News was created by...

Great Performances (1971)
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

The Good Wife (2009)
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political...

New Amsterdam (2018)
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and...

Remember WENN (1996)
The personal and professional lives of the staff of fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, before and during World War II.