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.
Pearl Harbor
2001
Singularity Principle
2013
The Obama Effect
2012
Train Dreams
2025
Stargate
1994
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
A Climate for Killing
1991
Road to Nowhere
2010
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
Lost Souls
2000
Mo' Money
1992
Fire Down Below
1997
The Hanoi Hilton
1987
Amanda & the Alien
1998
Falling Down
1993
A Time to Kill
1996
Escape from New York
1981
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
Anywhere but Here
1999
The Client
1994
The End of Violence
1997
The Far Side of Jericho
2006
Purgatory
1999
The House Is Burning
2006
Falling Like This
2001
Forever
2015
Joysticks
1983
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
Stripes
1981
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984
Three Wishes
1995
Nixon
1995
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Foxfire
1996
Fail Safe
2000
Buffalo Girls
1995
Gettysburg
1993
Mind Ripper
1995
Female Perversions
1997