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