John Diehl
Acting
- Born:
- 1950-05-01
- Place of birth:
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Train Dreams
John Candy: I Like Me
Armageddon Time
Dark Winds
La Sirena
Serpent in the Bottle
Gary's Walk
Castle Rock
Out of the Wild
Snowfall
The North Star
Forever
A Long Way Off
Almost Human
Singularity Principle
Apartment 1303 3D
The Obama Effect
Scandal
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Natural Selection
Road to Nowhere
Rizzoli & Isles
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
Follow the Prophet
Lie to Me
The Lucky Ones
Women's Murder Club
The Far Side of Jericho
The House Is Burning
Friday Night Lights
Jericho
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Hidden Places
Down in the Valley
Point Pleasant
Land of Plenty
I Pass for Human
Cold Case
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
Bookies
Tully
Without a Trace
The Shield
The Guardian
Falling Like This
Jurassic Park III
Pearl Harbor
The Zeros
Lost Souls
Strong Medicine
Fail Safe
Anywhere but Here
The West Wing
Get Real
Purgatory
The Hi-Lo Country
Monument Ave.
The Rat Pack
Amanda & the Alien
Most Wanted
The End of Violence
Fire Down Below
Con Air
Casualties
Female Perversions
Profiler
The Pretender
Foxfire
E! True Hollywood Story
A Time to Kill
Managua
Nash Bridges
The Destiny of Marty Fine
The Grave
Nixon
Three Wishes
Mind Ripper
JAG
Buffalo Girls
The Outer Limits
Stargate
ER
The New Age
The Client
Almost Dead
Gettysburg
The Paint Job
Remote
NYPD Blue
The X-Files
The John Larroquette Show
Falling Down
Mikey
Mo' Money
Motorama
A Climate for Killing
Whore
Eddie Dodd
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
The Dark Side of the Moon
Cool Blue
MadHouse
Monsters
Glitz
In the Heat of the Night
Walker
Beauty and the Beast
White of the Eye
The Hanoi Hilton
L.A. Law
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Miami Vice
Angel
D.C. Cab
National Lampoon's Vacation
Joysticks
Hysterical
Cagney & Lacey
Cassie & Co.
The Ambush Murders
Leon's Case
Falcon Crest
Stripes
Escape from New York
Hill Street Blues
Falling in Love Again
A Cry for Love