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==Personal life and death== ==Personal life and death==
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==Selected filmography== ==Selected filmography==

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American character actor (1941–2024)
John Capodice
Born(1941-12-25)December 25, 1941
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedDecember 30, 2024(2024-12-30) (aged 83)
OccupationActor
Years active1978–2024

John Capodice (December 25, 1941 – December 30, 2024) was an American character actor.

Acting career

Television

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 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.

Theatre work

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.

Films and voice work

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 provided the voice of Sidney Pen in the 2010 video game Mafia II.

Personal life and death

Capodice was born in Chicago, Illinois, on Christmas Day of 1941. He lived in Los Angeles, California, and later in Blauvelt, New York. Capodice died on December 30, 2024, at the age of 83.

Selected filmography

Note

  1. Some sources incorrectly list 1938 as his birth year, but most, including Intelius, list 1941

References

  1. ^ John C. Capodice at the Internet Broadway Database
  2. "John Capodice". TVSA.org.
  3. ^ "John Capodice". Pizzi Funeral Home. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  4. "John Capodice Dies: General Hospital Alum Was 83". Soap Opera News. 1 January 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2025.

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