John Diehl
Known for ActingBorn 1950-05-01 (age 76)Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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.Read more
Movies & web series
A Cry for Love
★ 10.0Find where to watch →
A Cry for Love
1980 · Movie
★ 8.4Find where to watch →
Snowfall
2017 · Series
★ 8.4Find where to watch →
The X-Files
1993 · Series
★ 8.3Find where to watch →
The West Wing
1999 · Series
★ 8.2Find where to watch →
The Shield
2002 · Series
★ 8.2Find where to watch →
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
★ 8.0Find where to watch →
Friday Night Lights
2006 · Series
★ 7.8Find where to watch →
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Movie
★ 7.9Find where to watch →
Rizzoli & Isles
2010 · Series
★ 7.9Find where to watch →
Lie to Me
2009 · Series
★ 7.8Find where to watch →
Women's Murder Club
2007 · Series
★ 7.8Find where to watch →
Cold Case
2003 · Series
★ 8.0Find where to watch →
The Ambush Murders
1982 · Movie
★ 7.8Find where to watch →
ER
1994 · Series
★ 7.7Find where to watch →
Hidden Places
2006 · Movie
★ 7.5Find where to watch →
Dark Winds
2022 · Series
★ 7.7Find where to watch →
Get Real
1999 · Series
★ 7.7Find where to watch →
The Outer Limits
1995 · Series
★ 7.3Find where to watch →
Train Dreams
2025 · Movie
★ 7.7Find where to watch →
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984 · Movie
★ 7.4Find where to watch →
Almost Human
2013 · Series
★ 7.4Find where to watch →
Jericho
2006 · Series
★ 7.6Find where to watch →
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Series
★ 7.4Find where to watch →
Strong Medicine
2000 · Series
★ 7.6Find where to watch →
In the Heat of the Night
1988 · Series
★ 7.2Find where to watch →
Castle Rock
2018 · Series
★ 7.4Find where to watch →
The Pretender
1996 · Series
★ 7.4Find where to watch →
A Time to Kill
1996 · Movie
★ 7.5Find where to watch →
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
★ 7.4Find where to watch →
Falling Down
1993 · Movie
★ 7.2Find where to watch →
Scandal
2012 · Series
★ 7.4Find where to watch →
Beauty and the Beast
1987 · Series
★ 7.3Find where to watch →
Without a Trace
2002 · Series
★ 7.3Find where to watch →
JAG
1995 · Series
★ 7.2Find where to watch →
Purgatory
1999 · Movie
★ 7.1Find where to watch →
NYPD Blue
1993 · Series
★ 7.0Find where to watch →
The Guardian
2001 · Series
★ 7.1Find where to watch →
Monsters
1988 · Series
★ 6.9Find where to watch →
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006 · Movie
★ 7.0Find where to watch →
Stargate
1994 · Movie
★ 7.1Find where to watch →
L.A. Law
1986 · Series
★ 7.0Find where to watch →
Profiler
1996 · Series
★ 6.9Find where to watch →
Pearl Harbor
2001 · Movie
★ 7.1Find where to watch →
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983 · Movie
★ 6.9Find where to watch →
Fail Safe
2000 · Movie
★ 7.0Find where to watch →
Gettysburg
1993 · Movie
★ 6.8Find where to watch →
Point Pleasant
2005 · Series
★ 7.0Find where to watch →
Escape from New York
1981 · Movie