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