
John Diehl
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.
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Movies
30 titles
Train Dreams
John Candy: I Like Me
Armageddon Time
Apartment 1303 3D
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
The Lucky Ones
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Down in the Valley
Pearl Harbor
Lost Souls
Anywhere but Here
Purgatory
The Hi-Lo Country
Con Air
Fire Down Below
Most Wanted
A Time to Kill
Foxfire
Nixon
The Client
Stargate
Falling Down
Gettysburg
Mo' Money
Whore
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
National Lampoon's Vacation
D.C. Cab
Escape from New York
Stripes
TV series
20 titles
Dark Winds
Castle Rock
Snowfall
Almost Human
Scandal
Rizzoli & Isles
Friday Night Lights
Jericho
Cold Case
Without a Trace
The Shield
The West Wing
Nash Bridges
The Pretender
JAG
The Outer Limits
The X-Files
Beauty and the Beast
Miami Vice