Place of Birth:
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Date of Birth:
5/1/1950
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.
The New Age
Jurassic Park III
The Hi-Lo Country
The Dark Side of the Moon
Stargate
Land of Plenty
A Time to Kill
Angel
Stripes
Monument Ave.
Whore
Anywhere but Here
Fail Safe
Down in the Valley
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
Mind Ripper
The House Is Burning
Mo' Money
Most Wanted
Joysticks
Purgatory
Walker
Road to Nowhere
Casualties
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
The End of Violence
Three Wishes
Motorama
The Hanoi Hilton
Natural Selection
Tully
Mikey
Apartment 1303 3D
The Obama Effect
Singularity Principle
Almost Dead
Glitz
Amanda & the Alien
Lost Souls
Gettysburg
Female Perversions
The Rat Pack
Armageddon Time
The Lucky Ones
Remote
The Ambush Murders
A Cry for Love
Buffalo Girls
Escape from New York
Forever
The Grave
National Lampoon's Vacation
A Long Way Off
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
Falling Down
Nixon
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Pearl Harbor
A Climate for Killing
Foxfire
MadHouse
Fire Down Below
The Far Side of Jericho
Falling Like This
Out of the Wild
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
I Pass for Human
The Client
The North Star
The Zeros
Hysterical
Falling in Love Again
D.C. Cab
Bookies
La Sirena
Serpent in the Bottle
Managua
The Destiny of Marty Fine
The Paint Job