

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.
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The West Wing
1999

The X-Files
1993

JAG
1995

NYPD Blue
1993

Scandal
2012

Cold Case
2003

Rizzoli & Isles
2010

Miami Vice
1984

Without a Trace
2002

ER
1994

The Shield
2002

Falcon Crest
1981

Lie to Me
2009

L.A. Law
1986

Snowfall
2017

Strong Medicine
2000

Nash Bridges
1996

Dark Winds
2022

Friday Night Lights
2006

The Outer Limits
1995

The Pretender
1996

Profiler
1996

The Guardian
2001

In the Heat of the Night
1988

Castle Rock
2018

The John Larroquette Show
1993

Jericho
2006

Monsters
1988

A Time to Kill
1996

Pearl Harbor
2001