He appeared in the NBC television show Third Watch as NYPD Lieutenant Swersky from 2000 to 2005.
[1] He also appeared on the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Craig Lennon, a parole officer and briefly appeared in the 1995 comedy/crime film The Jerky Boys: The Movie as a construction worker.
His father was Sicilian (from Giarre, Sicily) and his mother was of Irish descent.
[2] He spent 24 years in the New York Police Department (NYPD), retiring with the rank of captain.
While already employed by the police department (1969), Joe Lisi enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.