
John Diehl
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

Train Dreams

A Time to Kill

Pearl Harbor

Gettysburg

Stargate

National Lampoon's Vacation

Stripes

Escape from New York

Walker

Falling Down

Angel

Most Wanted

Female Perversions

Fail Safe

Nixon

The Client

The Grave

Natural Selection

Mikey

Almost Dead

Motorama

Monument Ave.

Foxfire

Fire Down Below

Glitz

Bookies

Tully

Casualties

Managua

Cool Blue

MadHouse

Remote

John Candy: I Like Me

Whore

Lost Souls

Hysterical

Kickboxer 2: The Road Back

Serpent in the Bottle

Armageddon Time

Purgatory

Buffalo Girls

Joysticks

Anywhere but Here

Three Wishes

Apartment 1303 3D

Down in the Valley

Mo' Money

The Zeros

D.C. Cab

The Rat Pack

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

The Hi-Lo Country

The Lucky Ones

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe

The New Age

The Dark Side of the Moon

Amanda & the Alien

Mind Ripper

The End of Violence

Land of Plenty

Road to Nowhere

White of the Eye

Falling in Love Again

The Ambush Murders

Forever

Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas

The Hanoi Hilton

La Sirena

Jurassic Park III

Out of the Wild

The Paint Job

I Pass for Human

The Destiny of Marty Fine

Follow the Prophet

The North Star

A Long Way Off

Singularity Principle

A Climate for Killing

The Obama Effect

Falling Like This

The Far Side of Jericho
