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.
124 acting credits
Acting · 124
The X-Files
1993
JAG
1995
ER
1994
Without a Trace
2002
The West Wing
1999
Falcon Crest
1981
Miami Vice
1984
Scandal
2012
Cold Case
2003
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
Hill Street Blues
1981
The Shield
2002
NYPD Blue
1993
Strong Medicine
2000
L.A. Law
1986
Snowfall
2017
The Guardian
2001
Nash Bridges
1996
Lie to Me
2009
The Outer Limits
1995
The Pretender
1996
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Profiler
1996
Dark Winds
2022
Friday Night Lights
2006
In the Heat of the Night
1988
Castle Rock
2018
The John Larroquette Show
1993
Monsters
1988
Jericho
2006
Pearl Harbor
2001
Almost Human
2013
Stargate
1994
Train Dreams
2025
Get Real
1999
Point Pleasant
2005
A Time to Kill
1996
Falling Down
1993
Women's Murder Club
2007
Escape from New York
1981
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
The Client
1994
Cassie & Co.
1982
Stripes
1981
Gettysburg
1993
Armageddon Time
2022
Fire Down Below
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
1991
Nixon
1995
Anywhere but Here
1999
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
Angel
1984
Purgatory
1999
Lost Souls
2000
Eddie Dodd
1991
Foxfire
1996
Down in the Valley
2005
Female Perversions
1996
Most Wanted
1997
Whore
1991
Fail Safe
2000
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
Motorama
1991
Mind Ripper
1995
Walker
1987
Mo' Money
1992
Beauty and the Beast
1987
The New Age
1994
The End of Violence
1997
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984
The Dark Side of the Moon
1990
MadHouse
1990
Joysticks
1983
Monument Ave.
1998
D.C. Cab
1983
Three Wishes
1995
Forever
2015
Falling in Love Again
1980
The Lucky Ones
2008
Mikey
1992
Hysterical
1982
The Rat Pack
1998
The Grave
1996
Buffalo Girls
1995
Almost Dead
1994
Bookies
2003
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
2011
Casualties
1997
Apartment 1303 3D
2012
Remote
1993
White of the Eye
1987
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
The Ambush Murders
1982
Land of Plenty
2004
Amanda & the Alien
1998
A Long Way Off
2014
The Far Side of Jericho
2006
Cool Blue
1990
Tully
2002
The North Star
2016
Glitz
1988
Natural Selection
2011
Managua
1996
The Hanoi Hilton
1987
The Obama Effect
2012
The House Is Burning
2006
The Paint Job
1993
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
2009
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
2003
Jurassic Park III
2001
Falling Like This
2001
La Sirena
2020
The Zeros
2001
Road to Nowhere
2010
A Cry for Love
1980
Singularity Principle
2013
Serpent in the Bottle
2020
A Climate for Killing
1991
Out of the Wild
2017
I Pass for Human
2004
Follow the Prophet
2009
Leon's Case
1982