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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-05-01
Place of birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Cast
The New Age
1994
5.59
Jurassic Park III
2001
6.15
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
6.20
The Dark Side of the Moon
1990
5.00
Land of Plenty
2004
6.20
Stargate
1994
7.00
A Time to Kill
1996
7.38
Angel
1984
5.93
Stripes
1981
6.55
Monument Ave.
1998
5.70
Whore
1991
5.30
Anywhere but Here
1999
6.10
Fail Safe
2000
6.90
Down in the Valley
2005
5.90
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
2009
3.90
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
1991
5.42
Mind Ripper
1995
4.40
The House Is Burning
2006
6.60
Mo' Money
1992
5.50
Most Wanted
1997
5.40
Joysticks
1983
4.70
Purgatory
1999
7.20
Walker
1987
6.30
Road to Nowhere
2010
5.80
Casualties
1997
6.60
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
2011
6.50
The End of Violence
1997
5.30
Three Wishes
1995
6.20
Motorama
1991
6.60
The Hanoi Hilton
1987
5.90
Natural Selection
2011
6.20
Tully
2002
6.30
Mikey
1992
6.00
Apartment 1303 3D
2012
3.64
The Obama Effect
2012
2.50
Singularity Principle
2013
6.50
Almost Dead
1994
5.90
Glitz
1988
6.00
Amanda & the Alien
1998
4.60
Lost Souls
2000
5.02
Gettysburg
1993
6.92
Female Perversions
1997
5.10
The Rat Pack
1998
5.90
Armageddon Time
2022
6.50
The Lucky Ones
2008
6.43
Remote
1993
4.70
The Ambush Murders
1982
9.00
A Cry for Love
1980
0.00
Buffalo Girls
1995
6.60
Escape from New York
1981
7.06
Forever
2015
6.00
The Grave
1996
5.10
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
7.11
A Long Way Off
2014
5.80
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
2003
0.00
Falling Down
1993
7.39
Nixon
1995
6.87
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984
7.90
Pearl Harbor
2001
6.93
A Climate for Killing
1991
3.00
Foxfire
1996
6.00
MadHouse
1990
5.40
Fire Down Below
1997
5.70
The Far Side of Jericho
2006
4.10
Falling Like This
2001
4.00
Out of the Wild
2017
6.50
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
6.90
I Pass for Human
2004
4.00
The Client
1994
6.69
The North Star
2016
5.00
The Zeros
2001
4.50
Hysterical
1982
4.92
Falling in Love Again
1980
5.50
D.C. Cab
1983
5.30
Bookies
2003
6.30
La Sirena
2020
6.00
Serpent in the Bottle
2020
2.67
Managua
1996
4.30
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
0.00
The Paint Job
1993
4.00
Follow the Prophet
2009
5.70