
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…

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.