John Capodice
Known For
Acting
Born
1941-12-25 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
2024-12-30
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.
Most Known For
Law & Order
as Bernie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Lou Gedda
Seinfeld
as Vic
The West Wing
as Lenny
Monk
as Frankie Marino
Murder, She Wrote
as Lt. Giordano
Mad About You
as Bill
Will & Grace
as Bernie
Angel
as Little Tony Papazian
Diagnosis: Murder
as Dan Wolpert
Diagnosis: Murder
as Antony Cavallo
Melrose Place
as Officer Marty Gold
The Practice
as Joe Jacobs
Wizards of Waverly Place
as Uncle Al
Knots Landing
as Captain Newton
Superman: The Animated Series
as Ceasar Carlini (voice)
Without a Trace
as Dave
NYPD Blue
as Detective Art Stillwell
Tales from the Crypt
as Mike
The Equalizer
as Father Antonelli