John Capodice

John Capodice (born December 25, 1941) is an American character actor.

Capodice was born in Chicago, Illinois. He 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 TV 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 most recent TV appearances were on The West Wing, Six Feet Under and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

In a memorable 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 has 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 police detective. 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 provides the voice of Sidney Pen in the 2010 video game Mafia II.

Independence Day

6.9

Speed

7.1

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

6.6

Enemy of the State

7.0

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

6.5

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

6.5

Wall Street

7.2

Seinfeld

8.3

Jacob's Ladder

7.4

The Doors

7.1

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

7.2

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.6

Monk

7.9

Everybody Hates Chris

8.0

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

6.7

Six Feet Under

8.1

Wizards of Waverly Place

8.4

Angel

7.9

Tales from the Crypt

8.0

Point of No Return

6.2

The Secret of My Success

6.5

Law & Order

7.4

The Phantom

5.3

Boy Meets World

8.2

The West Wing

8.3

Will & Grace

6.8

Q

5.8

The Hard Way

6.1

Blue Steel

5.8

Murder, She Wrote

7.5

Moonlighting

7.5

Superman: The Animated Series

7.6

Honeymoon in Vegas

5.6

Without a Trace

7.3

Family Business

5.7

Mad About You

6.7

Q & A

5.9

Melrose Place

5.9

Diagnosis: Murder

7.1

The Scout

5.2

A Low Down Dirty Shame

5.6

10th & Wolf

5.9

Blossom

6.1

The Practice

7.7

Hunter

7.3

Carolina

5.7

L.A. Law

7.1

Murphy Brown

6.4

The Wayans Bros.

7.1

The Equalizer

7.1

Ellen

6.3

Ringmaster

4.2

Dream On

6.9

Knots Landing

6.8

Cattle Call

4.1

Spenser: For Hire

6.7

Murder One

7.8

Providence

6.5

Detention

3.7

Kate & Allie

5.8

The Heart of Justice

5.6

Last Call

4.3

True Blood

5.5

Frank and Ava

5.4

Chain of Command

5.4

Spike of Bensonhurst

5.6

Jesus, Mary and Joey

4.2

Price of Glory

4.5

Double Bang

4.6

Shut Up and Kiss Me!

3.0

LAX

7.4

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

5.7

True Friends

7.0

Rodney Dangerfield: Nothin' Goes Right

7.2

Fever

3.6

To Love, Honor and Deceive

5.6

Executive Power

6.5

Lost Angelas

4.0

Hoods

6.6

El Coyote

3.2

Wedding Bell Blues

4.0

The Water Engine

4.3

Kiss of a Stranger

4.3

Dilemma

3.3

Chicago Sons

8.5

A Month of Sundays

3.5

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

5.0

Private Sessions

2.0

Pizza with Bullets

6.0

Internal Affairs

7.0

The Misery Brothers

2.0

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family

2.0

With Friends Like These

5.0

Damon

10.0

Capital News

6.0

Lookwell

0.0

Percy & Thunder

0.0

Taking A Stand

0.0

Out of the Black

0.0

Sharkskin

0.0

Blasphemy the Movie

0.0

At Face Value

0.0

George & Leo

0.0