Joe Grifasi - Фильмы

Иосиф Григорьевич "Джо" Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor of film stage and television. Grifasi что родился в Буффало, Нью-Йорк, the son of Patricia (née Гальоне) and Joseph J. Grifasi, a skilled laborer. Grifasi graduated from Bishop Фэллон High School, a now defunct Catholic high school в Буффало. He played football and acted in many of the school's plays. Grifasi briefly attended Canisius колледж в Буффало 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 сопрано саксофонист Джейн Айра Блум. Grifasi has played two separate members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who played for the New York Yankees. 61, набор в 1961, he played Фил Rizzuto; in The Bronx Is Burning, set in 1977, he played Yogi Berra. Пол Боргезе played Берра в 61, while actual 1977 broadcast recordings of Rizzuto were used in The Bronx Is Burning.