---
name: "John Costelloe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-costelloe"
fi1m_id: "john-costelloe"
imdb_id: "nm0182569"
tmdb_id: 171747
wikidata_id: "Q1147798"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 November 1961"
died: "16 December 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T20:18:25.424101+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John Costelloe

## Identity

John Costelloe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-costelloe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-costelloe
- **IMDb ID:** nm0182569
- **TMDB ID:** 171747
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1147798
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Costelloe_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1147798, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/171747

Actor. Born 8 November 1961 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 16 December 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 November 1961, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 16 December 2008
- **Active:** 1990–2008
- **Also known as:** John A. Costelloe
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 70 (1), 2000s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Costelloe_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1147798, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/171747

## Biography

John Costelloe, also credited as John A. Costelloe, was an American actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 8 November 1961, he worked as a firefighter with the FDNY for 11 years before retiring in 1998. He died in Brooklyn on 16 December 2008.

Costelloe appeared in films including *Black Rain* (1989), *Die Hard 2* (1990), *The Hard Way* (1991), *Manhattan Murder Mystery* (1993), *Kiss of Death* (1995), *Kazaam* (1996) and *Doubt* (2008). On television he had roles in *New York Undercover*, *Law & Order* and, most notably, four episodes of *The Sopranos* (2006) as Jim Witowski. His final film role was in *Doubt*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Doubt* (2008), Fi1m 71, as Warren Hurley — [page](https://film.one/film/doubt.md)
- *Die Hard 2* (1990), Fi1m 70, as Cochrane — [page](https://film.one/film/die-hard-2.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Doubt* (2008), as Warren Hurley — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/doubt.md)
- *The Kings of Brooklyn* (2004), as Miller
- *Crooked Lines* (2003), as Manny
- *The Sopranos* (1999), series, as Jim Witowski — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sopranos.md)
- *Celebrity* (1998), as Cop at Hotel
- *Kazaam* (1996), as Travis
- *Central Park West* (1995), series, Actor
- *Kiss of Death* (1995), as Cleary
- *Who Do I Gotta Kill?* (1994), as Billy "Bink-Bink" Borelli
- *New York Undercover* (1994), series, as John Santucci
- *Joey Breaker* (1993), as Randy Jeter
- *Manhattan Murder Mystery* (1993), as Policeman
- *Billy Bathgate* (1991), as Lulu
- *The Hard Way* (1991), as Fake Dead Guy / Cop
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Colin Parnell — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Die Hard 2* (1990), as Cochrane — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/die-hard-2.md)
- *Black Rain* (1989), as The Kid
- *Last Exit to Brooklyn* (1989), as Tommy

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