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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.
As actor
Train Dreams
John Candy: I Like Me
Armageddon Time
La Sirena
Serpent in the Bottle
Out of the Wild
The North Star
Forever
A Long Way Off
Singularity Principle
Apartment 1303 3D
The Obama Effect
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Natural Selection
Road to Nowhere
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
Follow the Prophet
The Lucky Ones
The House Is Burning
The Far Side of Jericho
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Hidden Places
Down in the Valley
Land of Plenty
I Pass for Human
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
Bookies
Tully
Jurassic Park III
Pearl Harbor