Known For
Acting
Born
May 01, 1950
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Credits
126 titles
John Diehl
Biography
John Diehl (born May 1, 1950) is an American character actor with over 150 credits to his name in film and television. He is best known for his roles as Charles Kawalsky in the 1994 film Stargate, Det. Larry Zito on the 1980s cop show Miami Vice, Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy on The Shield, and as "the Cruiser" in Stripes. His other notable roles include Pvt. Bucklin, the spokesman of the 2nd Maine mutineers in Gettysburg, Cooper in Jurassic Park III (2001), as G. Gordon Liddy in the Oliver Stone movie Nixon, the Klansman informant ("Mickey Mouse") in A Time to Kill, and as Keith, a credit card company supervisor in Mo Money. He also appeared as the spirit of Harley Earl in a series of commercials for Buick. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1968. For a time, he flirted with a professional boxing career, leaving Miami Vice to pursue it.
Known For
Filmography
Train Dreams
Billy
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Actor, Stripes (archive footage)
Armageddon Time
Fred Trump
Dark Winds
B.J. Vines
La Sirena
Nino
Serpent in the Bottle
Marvin Decker
Castle Rock
John
Out of the Wild
Henry McBride
Snowfall
Colonel Robert McDonald
The North Star
Master Anderson
Forever
Neil
A Long Way Off
Almost Human
Edward Kennex
Singularity Principle
Jack Brenner
Apartment 1303 3D
Detective
The Obama Effect
Steve Warren
Scandal
Ray Dwyer
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Rear Admiral Lawrence
Natural Selection
Abe
Road to Nowhere
Bobby Billings
Rizzoli & Isles
Arthur Dunbar
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
Sheriff Larabie
Follow the Prophet
Ted
Lie to Me
Charlie Everett
The Lucky Ones
Tom Klinger
Women's Murder Club
The Far Side of Jericho
Cash Thornton
The House Is Burning
Mr. Garson
Friday Night Lights
Richard Sherman
Jericho
Governor Trader
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Jerry Snyder
Hidden Places
Frank Wyatt
Down in the Valley
Steve
Point Pleasant
David Burke
Land of Plenty
Paul
I Pass for Human
Ex-husband
Cold Case
Isaac Keller
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
Dr. Rupert Miles
Bookies
Vincent
Tully
Mal "Mac" MacAvoy
Without a Trace
Doyle
The Shield
Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy
The Guardian
Fortunato
Falling Like This
Eddie Gallagher
Jurassic Park III
Cooper
Pearl Harbor
Senior Doctor
The Zeros
Burl
Lost Souls
Henry Birdson
Strong Medicine
Mr. Lawson
Fail Safe
Col. Cascio