John Capodice
Acting
Born 1941-12-25
Died 2024-12-30
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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John Capodice (December 25, 1941 – December 30, 2024) was an American character actor.
Capodice began his film and television career in the late 1970s. His first role was in the ABC-TV soap opera Ryan's Hope, where he appeared in six episodes as Lloyd Lord. He had guest roles on numerous other television series, including Spenser: For Hire, Kate & Allie, Seinfeld, Murder She Wrote, Murphy Brown, Knots Landing, Hunter, and Law & Order. He appeared on the series Moonlighting in 1989 and performed as a guest star in an episode of NBC-TV's Will & Grace (episode 1.21), in the role of the repairman who suffers a heart attack. His later television appearances were on The West Wing, Six Feet Under and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In a 1980s television ad for Polly-O String Cheese, Capodice portrayed Fred, a dumbfounded pizzeria owner, who is asked by three teens to make a pizza with extra cheese, but to hold the tomato sauce, and the crust. Essentially a pizza, with "nuttin." He also appeared as a trucker who gives medical advice in a popular ad for Dimetapp Cold Medicine.
Capodice also worked in the theatre, appearing mainly in Off-Broadway productions. He appeared as a prison guard in the play Getting Out at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre in October/November 1978 and at the Lucille Lortel Theatre from May 1979 to December 1980. The play won two Outer Critics Circle Awards in 1979. Capodice appeared in the Broadway production of Requiem For a Heavyweight, opposite John Lithgow, George Segal, and John C. McGinley.
Capodice appeared as Doyle in the 1982 film Q and in the 1989 film Family Business as Tommy. Other film appearances are in the 1991 Oliver Stone film The Doors and the 1989 comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil, where he appears as a bookmaker. He had roles in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994), Speed (1994), Independence Day (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998). He provided the voice of Sidney Pen in the 2010 video game Mafia II.
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Acting
57 credits
Law & Order
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The West Wing
Seinfeld
Monk
NYPD Blue
Hunter
Melrose Place
Without a Trace
Diagnosis: Murder
Murder, She Wrote
The Practice
Six Feet Under
Will & Grace
Angel
Mad About You
Knots Landing
L.A. Law
Murphy Brown
Wizards of Waverly Place
Tales from the Crypt
The Equalizer
Moonlighting
Superman: The Animated Series
Everybody Hates Chris
Ellen
Boy Meets World
Providence
Independence Day
Kate & Allie
Murder One
The Wayans Bros.
Speed
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Dream On
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Enemy of the State
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Wall Street
Jacob's Ladder
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
LAX
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Rude Awakening
The Doors
The Phantom
The Secret of My Success
Civil Wars
The Hard Way
10th & Wolf
Point of No Return
Blue Steel
Damon
Internal Affairs
Capital News
Family Business
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