Joe Grifasi

Joseph G. Joe Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor of du film, de stage et de la television. Grifasi was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Patricia (née Gaglione) et Joseph J. Grifasi, a skilled laborer. Grifasi graduated from Bishop Fallon High School, a now defunct Catholic high school, à Buffalo. He played football and acted in many of the school's plays. Grifasi briefly attended Canisius College de 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 saxophoniste soprano Jane Ira Bloom. Grifasi has played two distinct members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, who played for the Yankees de New York. En 61, set en 1961, he played Phil Rizzuto; dans le Bronx Is Burning, mis en 1977, he played Yogi Berra. Paul Borghese joué Berra dans 61, while actual 1977 diffusion recordings of Rizzuto were used in The Bronx Is Burning.