Joe Grifasi
Actor, Theater Actor
1944 –
Who is Joe Grifasi?
Joseph G. "Joe" Grifasi is an American character actor of film, stage and television.
Grifasi was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Patricia 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 school's 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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- Born
- Jun 14, 1944
Buffalo - Also known as
- Joseph G. Grifasi
- Joseph Grifasi
- Joseph G. "Joe" Grifasi
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jane Ira Bloom
(1974 - )
- Jane Ira Bloom
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Yale School of Drama
- Lived in
- Buffalo
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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