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John Diehl
1 FOLLOWER • 46 CREDITS • MAY 1, 1950 • 74
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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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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
Without a Trace
ER
Cold Case
E! True Hollywood Story
Cagney & Lacey
Snowfall
Rizzoli & Isles
The X-Files
Hill Street Blues
The Shield
Falcon Crest
Nash Bridges
Stargate SG-1
The Outer Limits
The John Larroquette Show
JAG
Scandal
Beauty and the Beast
In the Heat of the Night
The Pretender
Dark Winds
Castle Rock
Jericho
Friday Night Lights
Pearl Harbor
Falling Down
Gettysburg
Nixon
Escape from New York
Whore
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Rat Pack
A Time to Kill
Armageddon Time
Foxfire
The Ambush Murders
Stripes
The West Wing
Stargate
Miami Vice
Jurassic Park III
Amanda & the Alien
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Hunter
L.A. Law
Almost Dead
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