Joe Grifasi

Joe Grifasi

June 14, 1944 · 82 years old

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, Beach…

Known For

36 titles
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The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter

1978 · 3h 3m · Movie

The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam War.

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Batman Forever

Batman Forever

1995 · 2h 1m · Movie

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.

5.5
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13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30

2004 · 1h 38m · Movie

Unpopular schoolgirl Jenna Rink makes an unusual wish on her birthday. Miraculously, her wish comes true and the 13-year-old Jenna wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman.

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1988 · 1h 25m · Movie

Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994 · 1h 51m · Movie

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

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Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

2002 · 1h 38m · Movie

A young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.

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Moonstruck

Moonstruck

1987 · 1h 42m · Movie

Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.

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Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon

1993 · 1h 38m · Movie

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

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Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent

1990 · 2h 7m · Movie

As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else.

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One Fine Day

One Fine Day

1996 · 1h 48m · Movie

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.

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Brewster's Millions

Brewster's Millions

1985 · 1h 42m · Movie

A minor-league baseball player must spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity, or tell anyone about the deal.

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Money Train

Money Train

1995 · 1h 50m · Movie

A vengeful New York City transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares. His foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.

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F/X

F/X

1986 · 1h 49m · Movie

A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.

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61*

61*

2001 · 2h 9m · Movie

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

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Big Business

Big Business

1988 · 1h 37m · Movie

Two couples of sisters from New York and from the countryside discover that they are connected in an incredible way.

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Chances Are

Chances Are

1989 · 1h 48m · Movie

A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.

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The Pope of Greenwich Village

The Pope of Greenwich Village

1984 · 2h 1m · Movie

Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.

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Ironweed

Ironweed

1987 · 2h 23m · Movie

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

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Matewan

Matewan

1987 · 2h 15m · Movie

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community in 1920 West Virginia, brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

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Still of the Night

Still of the Night

1982 · 1h 33m · Movie

A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

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Heavy

Heavy

1995 · 1h 45m · Movie

The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.

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Slow Burn

Slow Burn

2005 · 1h 33m · Movie

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.

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Baked in Brooklyn

Baked in Brooklyn

2016 · 1h 26m · Movie

A guy decides to sell weed after losing his job, but things soon go out of hand as demand of business and paranoia starts taking over.

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Two Bits

Two Bits

1995 · 1h 25m · Movie

Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa's not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.

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Switching Goals

Switching Goals

1999 · 1h 25m · Movie

Girly girl Emma and tomboy Sam are 13-year-old teenagers, who are identical, personality-opposite twins, join a soccer team so they might switch places.

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City of Hope

City of Hope

1991 · 2h 9m · Movie

An intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.

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Radium Girls

Radium Girls

2020 · 1h 42m · Movie

In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure.

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The Other Me

The Other Me

2000 · 1h 30m · Movie

Will Browning accidentally creates a clone of himself when working on a science project.

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The American Side

The American Side

2016 · 1h 30m · Movie

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.

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Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine

1985 · 1h 38m · Movie

Unable to gain acceptance into an American medical school, aspiring physician Jeff Marx studies abroad in a small Latin American medical program run by the country's dictator.

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Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed

Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed

2006 · 1h 0m · Movie

Lewis Black, 'America's foremost commentator on everything,' delivers his comical insights into everything from the State of the Union to Dick Cheney's aim in this stand-up special.

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Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981 · 1h 47m · Movie

A satire of American progression in which a mayor tries to bribe an official to ensure a ramp connects Ticlaw to an up-and-coming intrastate. When his plan fails, the town residents are forced to take matters into their own hands.

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Household Saints

Household Saints

1993 · 2h 4m · Movie

Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.

6.9
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Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream

2014 · 2h 24m · Movie

Filmed version of Julie Taymor's live theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy about young lovers and magical sprites.

7.5
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On the Yard

On the Yard

1978 · 1h 42m · Movie

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.

6.0
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Me to Play

Me to Play

2021 · 1h 12m · Movie

Two actors with Parkinson's disease put up Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," the play where Beckett said, "there's nothing funnier than unhappiness." Opening their lives and exposing their craft in documentary, these actors prove it.

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