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.
Escape from New York
as PunkIn a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled...
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The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when...
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National Lampoon's Vacation
as Assistant MechanicClark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation,...
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Stripes
as CruiserJohn Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his...
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Stargate
as Lieutenant KawalskyAn interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling...
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Armageddon Time
as Fred TrumpIn 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate...
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The Client
as Jack NanceA street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer,...
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A Time to Kill
as Tim NunleyA young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old...
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Falling Down
as Dad (Back Yard Party)An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and...
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Nixon
as Gordon LiddyA look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while...
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Gettysburg
as Pvt. BucklinIn the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia...
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Fire Down Below
as Frank ElkinsWhen an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent...
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Jerry SnyderWhen Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a...
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Lost Souls
as Henry BirdsonA young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form....
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Purgatory
as BadgerAn outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun,...
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Anywhere but Here
as JimmySingle mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions....
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Angel
as The KillerMolly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on...
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The End of Violence
as LowellMike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action...
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Mikey
as Neil TrentonMikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole...
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Most Wanted
as Police CaptainSgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is...
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Whore
as DerelictThis melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
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Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
as JackIn this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan....
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Fail Safe
as Col. CascioCold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a...
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Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
as Rear Admiral LawrenceBefore Sam Axe teamed up with Michael and Fiona, he was Commander Axe, U.S. Navy SEAL. The Fall...
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Mo' Money
as Keith HeadingTrying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in...
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The Hi-Lo Country
as Les BirkAn intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a...
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Foxfire
as Mr. ButtingerThe story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has...
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D.C. Cab
as Head KidnapperThe tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes...
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Apartment 1303 3D
as DetectiveA woman uncovers sinister secrets while investigating the apparent suicide of her sister.
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The New Age
as LylePeter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center...
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Walker
as StebbinsWilliam Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in...
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The Lucky Ones
as Tom KlingerThe story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq...
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Three Wishes
as Leland's DadWhile Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack...
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Down in the Valley
as SteveOn a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who...
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Motorama
as PhilA ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
as Philip JenningsIt is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded...
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Mind Ripper
as AlexA top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the...
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Falling in Love Again
as Beaver (1940's)Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring...
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Hysterical
as Taxi DriverFrederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview,...
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Land of Plenty
as PaulAfter living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive...
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Monument Ave.
as DiggerBobby O'Grady is a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands...
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Female Perversions
as Jake RockAn ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female...
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Joysticks
as ArnieA successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the...
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MadHouse
as FredThe luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of...
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Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
as Det. Larry ZitoMiami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of...
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Road to Nowhere
as Bobby BillingsA passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young...
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Remote
as Delbert McCoyWhen 13-year-old Randy is forced to stash his remote control toys in a model home, he stumbles...
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Bookies
as VincentFour college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously...
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The Grave
as J.C. ColeTwo prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly...
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Forever
as NeilAn investigative reporter finds the will to live again after discovering an enigmatic commune.
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Buffalo Girls
as Gen. Custer (1995)The bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the...
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The Rat Pack
as Joe DiMaggioAfter a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's...
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The Hanoi Hilton
as MurphyLionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the...
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The Zeros
as BurlA slightly futuristic dark comedy about a young man who finds out he is dying, and goes in...
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The Obama Effect
as Steve WarrenA serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer...
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Amanda & the Alien
as Colonel RosencransAmanda, an employee at an upscale clothing store, is leading a relatively lonely and...
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The Destiny of Marty Fine
as DekeMarty Fine is a small-time man with a big-time dream. One night, the ex-middleweight fighter...
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Tully
as Mal "Mac" MacAvoyTully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault....
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Singularity Principle
as Jack BrennerSingularity Principle is a feature length science-fiction film about the consequences of...
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Almost Dead
as Eddie HerbekA woman psychologist, who specialises in research about twins, is haunted by her dead mothers ghost.
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Natural Selection
as AbeWhen a dutiful, albeit barren Christian housewife discovers that her devout husband has suffered...
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The Paint Job
as FatherThe peaceful existence of a suburban backwater is disrupted when Wesley, a troubled housepainter...
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Out of the Wild
as Henry McBrideThe story of Henry McBride, a down and out cowboy with a painful past he can't drink away....
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The Ambush Murders
as FergusonAn African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen;...
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The Far Side of Jericho
as Cash ThorntonJericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers...
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Casualties
as PolitoA woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her...
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Managua
as uncreditedWhen a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels,...
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La Sirena
as NinoThe lives of Penny, a nighttime police dispatcher, and Nino, a barber, get turned upside down...
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Glitz
as Teddy MagykVincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex...
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A Long Way Off
as uncreditedJacob is tired of living on the family farm, submitting to the rules of his father. One day he...
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The North Star
as Master AndersonThe North Star is the story of Benjamin "Big Ben" Jones and Moses Hopkins, two slaves who...
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Jurassic Park III
as CooperIn need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and...
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Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
as Sheriff LarabieThe true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.
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I Pass for Human
as Ex-husbandJane's lover Dax overdoses on heroin. Wanting to kill the pain of loss, Jane does dope for the...
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Falling Like This
as Eddie GallagherFalling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan...
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Serpent in the Bottle
as Marvin DeckerSerpent in the Bottle is a tragic tale of one young man's desire to conform to societal pressure...
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JAG
as Jack RaglanHarmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge...
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The West Wing
as ClaypoolThe West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells...
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The X-Files
as Wilson Pinker RawlsThe exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...
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Without a Trace
as DoyleThe series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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L.A. Law
as Kevin DelahantyL.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...
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L.A. Law
as TimL.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...
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Hill Street Blues
as uncreditedA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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NYPD Blue
as Joe bradyPolice drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the...
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The Pretender
as Sheriff DelmontRaised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can...
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The Outer Limits
as JoeAnthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end,...
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The John Larroquette Show
as ChrisThe John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John...
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Friday Night Lights
as Richard ShermanThe trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football...
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Falcon Crest
as uncreditedFalcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...
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In the Heat of the Night
as John sevranceIn the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel...
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Nash Bridges
as Albert fossFun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite...
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Rizzoli & Isles
as Arthur DunbarPerhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane...
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Miami Vice
as Larry ZitoThe story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...
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Scandal
as Ray DwyerEveryone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the...
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The Shield
as Assistant Chief Ben GilroyThe story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above...
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Women's Murder Club
as uncreditedWomen's Murder Club was an American police procedural and legal drama, which ran on ABC from...
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Castle Rock
as JohnBased on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the...
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Snowfall
as Colonel Robert McDonaldLos Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack...
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Cold Case
as Isaac KellerThe Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned...
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ER
as Johnson's SonER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...
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Almost Human
as Edward KennexThe year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns...
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Jericho
as Governor TraderJericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town...
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Point Pleasant
as uncreditedA series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a...
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Cagney & Lacey
as uncreditedMary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing...
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E! True Hollywood Story
as uncreditedE! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood...
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Dark Winds
as B.J. VinesThis psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s...
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Monsters
as Miles magnusMonsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and...
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Get Real
as Harris FormanGet Real was a short-lived comedy-drama on the FOX Network centering on the fictional Green...
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Beauty and the Beast
as uncreditedBeauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron...
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