John Diehl

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: Acting

Born: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1950-05-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	A Cry for Love		0
2	1980	Falling in Love Again	Beaver (1940's)	55
3	1981	Escape from New York	Punk	71
4	1981	Stripes	Cruiser	66
5	1982	The Ambush Murders	Ferguson	90
6	1982	Hysterical	Taxi Driver	50
7	1983	Joysticks	Arnie	48
8	1983	National Lampoon's Vacation	Assistant Mechanic	71
9	1983	D.C. Cab	Head Kidnapper	53
10	1984	Angel	The Killer	59
11	1984	Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper	Det. Larry Zito	79
12	1987	The Hanoi Hilton	Murphy	59
13	1987	Walker	Stebbins	63
14	1988	Glitz	Teddy Magyk	60
15	1990	MadHouse	Fred	53
16	1990	The Dark Side of the Moon	Philip Jennings	51
17	1991	Kickboxer 2: The Road Back	Jack	54
18	1991	Whore	Derelict	53
19	1991	A Climate for Killing	Wayne Paris	30
20	1991	Motorama	Phil	66
21	1992	Mo' Money	Keith Heading	55
22	1992	Mikey	Neil Trenton	60
23	1993	Falling Down	Dad (Back Yard Party)	74
24	1993	Remote	Delbert McCoy	47
25	1993	The Paint Job	Father	40
26	1993	Gettysburg	Pvt. Bucklin	69
27	1994	Almost Dead	Eddie Herbek	59
28	1994	The Client	Jack Nance	67
29	1994	The New Age	Lyle	55
30	1994	Stargate	Lieutenant Kawalsky	70
31	1995	Buffalo Girls	Gen. Custer (1995)	66
32	1995	Mind Ripper	Alex	44
33	1995	Three Wishes	Leland's Dad	62
34	1995	Nixon	Gordon Liddy	69
35	1996	The Grave	J.C. Cole	51
36	1996	The Destiny of Marty Fine	Deke	0
37	1996	Managua		43
38	1996	A Time to Kill	Tim Nunley	74
39	1996	Foxfire	Mr. Buttinger	61
40	1997	Casualties	Polito	66
41	1997	Female Perversions	Jake Rock	51
42	1997	Fire Down Below	Frank Elkins	57
43	1997	The End of Violence	Lowell	53
44	1997	Most Wanted	Police Captain	54
45	1998	Amanda & the Alien	Colonel Rosencrans	46
46	1998	The Rat Pack	Joe DiMaggio	59
47	1998	Monument Ave.	Digger	57
48	1998	The Hi-Lo Country	Les Birk	62
49	1999	Purgatory	Badger	72
50	1999	Anywhere but Here	Jimmy	61
51	2000	Fail Safe	Col. Cascio	69
52	2000	Lost Souls	Henry Birdson	50
53	2001	The Zeros	Burl	45
54	2001	Pearl Harbor	Senior Doctor	69
55	2001	Jurassic Park III	Cooper	62
56	2001	Falling Like This	Eddie Gallagher	40
57	2002	Tully	Mal "Mac" MacAvoy	63
58	2003	Bookies	Vincent	63
59	2003	Dragnet: Sticks and Stones	Dr. Rupert Miles	0
60	2004	I Pass for Human	Ex-husband	40
61	2004	Land of Plenty	Paul	62
62	2005	Down in the Valley	Steve	59
63	2006	Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise	Jerry Snyder	69
64	2006	The House Is Burning	Mr. Garson	66
65	2006	The Far Side of Jericho	Cash Thornton	41
66	2008	The Lucky Ones	Tom Klinger	64
67	2009	Follow the Prophet	Ted	57
68	2009	Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas	Sheriff Larabie	39
69	2010	Road to Nowhere	Bobby Billings	58
70	2011	Natural Selection	Abe	62
71	2011	Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe	Rear Admiral Lawrence	65
72	2012	The Obama Effect	Steve Warren	25
73	2012	Apartment 1303 3D	Detective	36
74	2013	Singularity Principle	Jack Brenner	65
75	2014	A Long Way Off		58
76	2015	Forever	Neil	60
77	2016	The North Star	Master Anderson	50
78	2017	Out of the Wild	Henry McBride	65
79	2020	Serpent in the Bottle	Marvin Decker	27
80	2020	La Sirena	Nino	60
81	2022	Armageddon Time	Fred Trump	65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
2	1981	Falcon Crest	Gus Wallach	56
3	1982	Cagney & Lacey		70
4	1984	Miami Vice	Larry Zito	74
5	1986	L.A. Law	Kevin Delahanty	71
6	1986	L.A. Law	Tim	71
7	1987	Beauty and the Beast		75
8	1988	In the Heat of the Night	John sevrance	75
9	1988	Monsters	Miles magnus	70
10	1991	Eddie Dodd		0
11	1993	The John Larroquette Show	Chris	67
12	1993	The X-Files	Wilson Pinker Rawls	84
13	1993	NYPD Blue	Joe brady	70
14	1994	ER	Johnson's Son	78
15	1995	The Outer Limits	Joe	77
16	1995	JAG	Jack Raglan	73
17	1996	Nash Bridges	Albert foss	66
18	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
19	1996	The Pretender	Sheriff Delmont	74
20	1999	Get Real	Harris Forman	73
21	1999	The West Wing	Claypool	82
22	2000	Strong Medicine	Mr. Lawson	71
23	2002	The Shield	Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy	81
24	2002	Without a Trace	Doyle	73
25	2003	Cold Case	Isaac Keller	78
26	2005	Point Pleasant		66
27	2006	Jericho	Governor Trader	74
28	2006	Friday Night Lights	Richard Sherman	80
29	2007	Women's Murder Club		79
30	2010	Rizzoli & Isles	Arthur Dunbar	79
31	2012	Scandal	Ray Dwyer	72
32	2013	Almost Human	Edward Kennex	74
33	2017	Snowfall	Colonel Robert McDonald	84
34	2018	Castle Rock	John	72
35	2022	Dark Winds	B.J. Vines	75