Highest rated movie: The Deer Hunter (1978)
Lowest rated movie: Something Short of Paradise (1979)
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Movies starring Joe Grifasi have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
The Deer Hunter - released in 1978 - is Joe Grifasi's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 724 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Joe Grifasi is Something Short of Paradise - released in 1979 - with a score of 33% based on 3 reviews.
Joseph G. "Joe" Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor of film, stage and television. Grifasi was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Patricia (née Gaglione) 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.
Joe Grifasi has acted in films with Josef Sommer, Meryl Streep, David Strathairn and Tovah Feldshuh.
Joe Grifasi has worked with these film directors: John Sayles, James Caan, Billy Crystal and Oliver Stone.
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