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.
Acting (83 movies)
The New Age
1994
Jurassic Park III
2001
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
The Dark Side of the Moon
1990
Stargate
1994
Land of Plenty
2004
A Time to Kill
1996
Angel
1984
Stripes
1981
Monument Ave.
1998
Whore
1991
Anywhere but Here
1999
Fail Safe
2000
Down in the Valley
2005
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
2009
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
1991
Mind Ripper
1995
The House Is Burning
2006
Mo' Money
1992
Most Wanted
1997
Joysticks
1983
Purgatory
1999
Walker
1987
Road to Nowhere
2010
Casualties
1997
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
2011
The End of Violence
1997
Three Wishes
1995
Motorama
1991
The Hanoi Hilton
1987
Natural Selection
2011
Tully
2002
Mikey
1992
Apartment 1303 3D
2012
The Obama Effect
2012
Singularity Principle
2013
Almost Dead
1994
Glitz
1988
Amanda & the Alien
1998
Lost Souls
2000
Gettysburg
1993
Female Perversions
1997
The Rat Pack
1998
Armageddon Time
2022
The Lucky Ones
2008
Remote
1993
The Ambush Murders
1982
Buffalo Girls
1995
Escape from New York
1981
Forever
2015
The Grave
1996
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
A Long Way Off
2014
Falling Down
1993
Nixon
1995
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984
Pearl Harbor
2001
A Climate for Killing
1991
Foxfire
1996
MadHouse
1990
Fire Down Below
1997
The Far Side of Jericho
2006
Falling Like This
2001
Out of the Wild
2017
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
I Pass for Human
2004
The Client
1994
The North Star
2016
The Zeros
2001
Hysterical
1982
Falling in Love Again
1980
D.C. Cab
1983
Bookies
2003
La Sirena
2020
Serpent in the Bottle
2020
Managua
1996
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
The Paint Job
1993
Follow the Prophet
2009
Cool Blue
1990
White of the Eye
1987
Train Dreams
2025
Miami Vice ‘The Prodigal Son’
1987
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