John Capodice

Known for ActingBorn 1941-12-25Died 2024-12-30Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

George & Leo

Taking A Stand

Blasphemy the Movie

Damon

Wizards of Waverly Place

Chicago Sons

The West Wing

Boy Meets World

Seinfeld

Everybody Hates Chris

Six Feet Under

Monk

Percy & Thunder

Lookwell

Internal Affairs

Tales from the Crypt

Angel

Murder One

The Practice

Superman: The Animated Series

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

LAX

Murder, She Wrote

Moonlighting

Hoods

Without a Trace

Jacob's Ladder

Law & Order

The Wayans Bros.

True Friends

Speed

Enemy of the State

Wall Street

Diagnosis: Murder

NYPD Blue

The Doors

The Equalizer

L.A. Law

Hunter

Independence Day

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Dream On

Will & Grace

Spenser: For Hire

Providence

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Knots Landing