Acting
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.
Movies with John Diehl
Con Air
1997
Pearl Harbor
2001
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
A Time to Kill
1996
Falling Down
1993
Train Dreams
2025
Stargate
1994
Escape from New York
1981
Stripes
1981
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
The Client
1994
Gettysburg
1993
Fire Down Below
1997
Whore
1991
Walker
1987
Most Wanted
1997
Foxfire
1996
Female Perversions
1996
Armageddon Time
2022
Mikey
1992
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
1991
Lost Souls
2000
Nixon
1995
MadHouse
1990
Anywhere but Here
1999
The Lucky Ones
2008
Purgatory
1999
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
Angel
1984
Bookies
2003
Fail Safe
2000
Down in the Valley
2005
Apartment 1303 3D
2012
The Rat Pack
1998
Hidden Places
2006
Hysterical
1982
Mo' Money
1992
Land of Plenty
2004
Managua
1996
Joysticks
1983
Mind Ripper
1995
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
The Grave
1996
D.C. Cab
1983
Three Wishes
1995
Road to Nowhere
2010
Buffalo Girls
1995
The New Age
1994
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
2011
Monument Ave.
1998
The Hanoi Hilton
1987
White of the Eye
1987
The End of Violence
1997
Amanda & the Alien
1998
The Dark Side of the Moon
1990
The Zeros
2001
Casualties
1997
Almost Dead
1994
Cool Blue
1990
The Paint Job
1993
A Long Way Off
2014
Out of the Wild
2017
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984
Jurassic Park III
2001
Falling in Love Again
1980
Glitz
1988
Motorama
1991
Forever
2015
Leon's Case
1982
Remote
1993
Natural Selection
2011
The Ambush Murders
1982
A Cry for Love
1980
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
2003
The North Star
2016
The House Is Burning
2006
Follow the Prophet
2009
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
2009
Singularity Principle
2013
I Pass for Human
2004
The Obama Effect
2012
La Sirena
2020
Tully
2002
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
Falling Like This
2001
A Climate for Killing
1991
Serpent in the Bottle
2020
The Far Side of Jericho
2006
TV Shows with John Diehl
The X-Files
1993
JAG
1995
The West Wing
1999
ER
1994
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
Without a Trace
2002
NYPD Blue
1993
Scandal
2012
The Shield
2002
Cold Case
2003
Miami Vice
1984
Snowfall
2017
Falcon Crest
1981
Strong Medicine
2000
Hill Street Blues
1981
Lie to Me
2009
The Guardian
2001
Nash Bridges
1996
L.A. Law
1986
Cagney & Lacey
1982
The Outer Limits
1995
The Pretender
1996
Dark Winds
2022
Friday Night Lights
2006
Profiler
1996
Castle Rock
2018
Monsters
1988
Jericho
2006
In the Heat of the Night
1988
The John Larroquette Show
1993
Get Real
1999
Almost Human
2013
Women's Murder Club
2007
Point Pleasant
2005
Cassie & Co.
1982
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Eddie Dodd
1991
Beauty and the Beast
1987