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John Capodice (December 25, 1941 – December 30, 2024) was an American character actor.
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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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
December 25, 1941
Died
December 30, 2024
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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1987
Independence Day
1996
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1998
Chain of Command
2000
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
1994
Cattle Call
2006
Fever
1991
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
The Phantom
1996
Internal Affairs
1990
The Doors
1991
A Low Down Dirty Shame
1994
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Executive Power
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Lookwell
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The Heart of Justice
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2000
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1990
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1989
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1979
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2002
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1993
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Without a Trace
2002
Will & Grace
1998
Melrose Place
1992
Angel
1999
The Practice
1997
NYPD Blue
1993
Mad About You
1992
L.A. Law
1986
Six Feet Under
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Ellen
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1985
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