John Diehl
Birthday: 1950-05-01
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography: 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.
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The New Age
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to th...
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Jurassic Park III
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Ama...
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The Hi-Lo Country
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a swee...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on t...
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Land of Plenty
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...
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Stargate
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancie...
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A Time to Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
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Angel
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Holl...
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Stripes
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfri...
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Monument Ave.
Bobby O'Grady is a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands abso...
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Whore
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style....
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Anywhere but Here
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her ...
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Fail Safe
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclea...
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Down in the Valley
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dre...
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Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
In this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan. Po ...
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Mind Ripper
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, ...
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The House Is Burning
One day. One night. A group of teenagers struggles to find their way in a world that offers them few...
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Mo' Money
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love w...
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Most Wanted
A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops te...
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Joysticks
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental h...
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Purgatory
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks,...
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Walker
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to...
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Road to Nowhere
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young wom...
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Casualties
A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predi...
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Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Before Sam Axe teamed up with Michael and Fiona, he was Commander Axe, U.S. Navy SEAL. The Fall of S...
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The End of Violence
In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillan...
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Three Wishes
While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, ...
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Motorama
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a...
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The Hanoi Hilton
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North V...
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Natural Selection
When a dutiful, albeit barren Christian housewife discovers that her devout husband has suffered a s...
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Tully
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While th...
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Mikey
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He...
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Apartment 1303 3D
A woman uncovers sinister secrets while investigating the apparent suicide of her sister....
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The Obama Effect
A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look ...
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Singularity Principle
Singularity Principle is a feature length science-fiction film about the consequences of renegade ex...
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Almost Dead
A woman psychologist, who specialises in research about twins, is haunted by her dead mothers ghost....
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Glitz
Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offe...
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Amanda & the Alien
Amanda, an employee at an upscale clothing store, is leading a relatively lonely and unremarkable li...
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Lost Souls
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To ...
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Gettysburg
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...
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Female Perversions
Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But belo...
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The Rat Pack
After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's mai...
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Armageddon Time
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to t...
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The Lucky Ones
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War af...
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Remote
When 13-year-old Randy is forced to stash his remote control toys in a model home, he stumbles acros...
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The Ambush Murders
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he ...
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A Cry for Love
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. Whi...
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Buffalo Girls
The bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the wanin...
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Escape from New York
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison ...
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Forever
An investigative reporter finds the will to live again after discovering an enigmatic commune....
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The Grave
Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly burie...
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National Lampoon's Vacation
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but t...
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A Long Way Off
Jacob is tired of living on the family farm, submitting to the rules of his father. One day he deman...
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Falling Down
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and vio...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them...
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Pearl Harbor
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
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A Climate for Killing
Shortly before a rodeo festival week in Yuma County a body is found in the desert. It seems that it'...
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Foxfire
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexuall...
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MadHouse
The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited ...
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Fire Down Below
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack T...
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The Far Side of Jericho
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recentl...
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Falling Like This
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wil...
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Out of the Wild
The story of Henry McBride, a down and out cowboy with a painful past he can't drink away. Living on...
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local la...
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I Pass for Human
Jane's lover Dax overdoses on heroin. Wanting to kill the pain of loss, Jane does dope for the first...
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The Client
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who...
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The North Star
The North Star is the story of Benjamin 'Big Ben' Jones and Moses Hopkins, two slaves who escaped fr...
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The Zeros
A slightly futuristic dark comedy about a young man who finds out he is dying, and goes in search of...
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Hysterical
Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; ho...
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Falling in Love Again
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, s...
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D.C. Cab
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to to...
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Bookies
Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of...
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La Sirena
The lives of Penny, a nighttime police dispatcher, and Nino, a barber, get turned upside down when 1...
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Serpent in the Bottle
Serpent in the Bottle is a tragic tale of one young man's desire to conform to societal pressure in ...
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Managua
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special...
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The Destiny of Marty Fine
Marty Fine is a small-time man with a big-time dream. One night, the ex-middleweight fighter sees so...
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The Paint Job
The peaceful existence of a suburban backwater is disrupted when Wesley, a troubled housepainter fal...
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Follow the Prophet
Follow the Prophet is an American film that was written by and stars Robert Chimento, which was crea...
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Cool Blue
Dustin, an aspiring painter meets this woman named Christiane. Dustin is on a search for love, sex, ...
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White of the Eye
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a ser...
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Train Dreams
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental cha...
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John Candy: I Like Me
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-be...
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