John Diehl
ActingAlso Known As
John Henry Diehl, جان دییل
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.
Movies
(86 total)
Jurassic Park III
as Cooper
Pearl Harbor
as Senior Doctor
Falling Down
as Dad (Back Yard Party)
Stargate
as Lieutenant Kawalsky
Escape from New York
as Punk
A Time to Kill
as Tim Nunley
National Lampoon's Vacation
as Assistant Mechanic
The Client
as Jack Nance
Stripes
as Cruiser
Train Dreams
as Billy
Armageddon Time
as Fred Trump
Nixon
as Gordon Liddy
Fire Down Below
as Frank Elkins
Gettysburg
as Pvt. Bucklin
Apartment 1303 3D
as Detective
Anywhere but Here
as Jimmy
Down in the Valley
as Steve
Lost Souls
as Henry Birdson
The Lucky Ones
as Tom Klinger
TV Shows
(38 total)
The X-Files
as Wilson Pinker Rawls
ER
as Johnson's Son
The Shield
as Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy
Snowfall
as Colonel Robert McDonald
Castle Rock
as John
Scandal
as Ray Dwyer
The West Wing
as Claypool
Almost Human
as Edward Kennex
Jericho
as Governor Trader
Miami Vice
as Larry Zito
Rizzoli & Isles
as Arthur Dunbar
Cold Case
as Isaac Keller
JAG
as Jack Raglan
Friday Night Lights
as Richard Sherman
Without a Trace
as Doyle
The Outer Limits
as Joe
The Pretender
as Sheriff Delmont
Dark Winds
as B.J. Vines
NYPD Blue
as Joe brady