John Diehl

Known for ActingBorn 1950-05-01 (age 76)Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

A Cry for Love

Snowfall

The X-Files

The West Wing

The Shield

E! True Hollywood Story

John Candy: I Like Me

Friday Night Lights

Rizzoli & Isles

Lie to Me

Women's Murder Club

The Ambush Murders

Cold Case

ER

Dark Winds

Get Real

The Outer Limits

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

Train Dreams

Almost Human

Jericho

Strong Medicine

In the Heat of the Night

Hill Street Blues

Castle Rock

The Pretender

A Time to Kill

Falling Down

Scandal

Beauty and the Beast

Miami Vice

Without a Trace

JAG

Purgatory

The Guardian

NYPD Blue

Monsters

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

L.A. Law

Stargate

Profiler

Pearl Harbor

Gettysburg

National Lampoon's Vacation

Fail Safe

Point Pleasant

Escape from New York

Nixon