John Capodice
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.
111 acting credits
Acting · 111
Law & Order
1990
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Seinfeld
1989
Monk
2002
Without a Trace
2002
The West Wing
1999
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Melrose Place
1992
Will & Grace
1998
Knots Landing
1979
The Practice
1997
NYPD Blue
1993
Angel
1999
L.A. Law
1986
Mad About You
1992
The Equalizer
1985
Six Feet Under
2001
Hunter
1984
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Moonlighting
1985
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Everybody Hates Chris
2005
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007
Ellen
1994
Providence
1999
Boy Meets World
1993
Murphy Brown
1988
Blossom
1990
Murder One
1995
Kate & Allie
1984
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Wayans Bros.
1995
Independence Day
1996
Dream On
1990
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
Speed
1994
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023
Enemy of the State
1998
LAX
2004
Civil Wars
1991
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
George & Leo
1997
Jacob's Ladder
1990
Capital News
1990
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
Wall Street
1987
Chicago Sons
1997
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
The Doors
1991
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989
Damon
1998
The Phantom
1996
Rude Awakening
1998
Internal Affairs
1990
Point of No Return
1993
The Hard Way
1991
The Secret of My Success
1987
Blue Steel
1990
Q: The Winged Serpent
1982
A Low Down Dirty Shame
1994
The Heart of Justice
1992
Q & A
1990
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
Family Business
1989
10th & Wolf
2006
The Scout
1994
Carolina
2003
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
1994
Ringmaster
1998
Last Call
2012
Fever
1994
With Friends Like These
1998
Cattle Call
2006
The Misery Brothers
1995
Dilemma
1997
Lookwell
1991
Hoods
1998
Chain of Command
2000
Sharkskin
2015
Jesus, Mary and Joey
2006
Wedding Bell Blues
1996
Detention
2010
Double Bang
2001
Internal Affairs
1988
Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
1993
Price of Glory
2000
Out of the Black
2001
True Blood
1989
Spike of Bensonhurst
1988
Frank and Ava
2020
Lost Angelas
2019
Shut Up and Kiss Me!
2004
The Water Engine
1992
The Amati Girls
2001
Executive Power
1997
El Coyote
2019
Kiss of a Stranger
1999
Pizza with Bullets
2012
Private Sessions
1985
Rodney Dangerfield: Nothin' Goes Right
1988
Conversations with A Mobster
2024
A Month of Sundays
2001
Cooperstown
1993
Blasphemy the Movie
2005
Taking A Stand
1989
Percy & Thunder
1993
To Love, Honor and Deceive
1996
True Friends
1998
At Face Value
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Darkroom
2009