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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.025 |
Birthday | 1950-05-01 |
Place of Birth | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
Also Known As | John Henry Diehl, |
2001
Jurassic Park III
6.1/6978
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla S...
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Jurassic Park III
1998
The Hi-Lo Country
6.155/84
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War I...
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The Hi-Lo Country
1996
A Time to Kill
7.4/2450
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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A Time to Kill
2004
Land of Plenty
6.1/45
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
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Land of Plenty
1984
Angel
5.9/95
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apar...
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Angel
1990
The Dark Side of the Moon
5/69
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running ou...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
1994
Stargate
7.002/3331
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
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Stargate
1981
Stripes
6.547/879
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
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Stripes
1991
Whore
5.3/94
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
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Whore
1998
Monument Ave.
5.689/27
Bobby O'Grady is a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one...
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Monument Ave.
1999
Anywhere but Here
6.1/267
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high...
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Anywhere but Here
2000
Fail Safe
6.94/75
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
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Fail Safe
2005
Down in the Valley
5.9/205
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch...
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Down in the Valley
2009
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
4/18
The true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.
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Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
1991
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
5.469/178
In this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan. Po and his managers resort to drastic measures to goa...
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Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
1995
Mind Ripper
4.32/64
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being purs...
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Mind Ripper
2006
The House Is Burning
6.643/7
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The House Is Burning
1992
Mo' Money
5.436/132
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards...
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Mo' Money
1983
Joysticks
4.8/60
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.
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Joysticks
1997
Most Wanted
5.374/107
A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and...
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Most Wanted
1987
Walker
6.3/71
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Walker
2010
Road to Nowhere
5.784/37
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme f...
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Road to Nowhere
2011
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
6.444/117
Before Sam Axe teamed up with Michael and Fiona, he was Commander Axe, U.S. Navy SEAL. The Fall of Sam Axe tells the story of how Sam went from respec...
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Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
1997
The End of Violence
5.269/65
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him...
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The End of Violence
2000
Lost Souls
5.02/172
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...
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Lost Souls
1995
Three Wishes
6.164/76
While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invite...
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Three Wishes
1991
Motorama
6.6/51
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America play...
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Motorama
1987
The Hanoi Hilton
5.8/16
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known a...
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The Hanoi Hilton
1993
Falling Down
7.388/3555
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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Falling Down
2011
Natural Selection
6.1/27
When a dutiful, albeit barren Christian housewife discovers that her devout husband has suffered a stroke at a sperm bank where he's been secretly don...
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Natural Selection
1992
Mikey
5.938/73
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, b...
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Mikey
2012
The Obama Effect
2.5/4
A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession wi...
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The Obama Effect
2012
Apartment 1303 3D
3.657/287
A woman uncovers sinister secrets while investigating the apparent suicide of her sister.
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Apartment 1303 3D
2013
Singularity Principle
6.5/5
Singularity Principle is a feature length science-fiction film about the consequences of renegade experiments into Parallel Universes. Co-written and...
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Singularity Principle
1994
Almost Dead
6.091/11
A woman psychologist, who specialises in research about twins, is haunted by her dead mothers ghost.
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Almost Dead
1988
Glitz
6/2
Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against.
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Glitz
1995
Amanda & the Alien
4.571/13
Amanda, an employee at an upscale clothing store, is leading a relatively lonely and unremarkable life. All this changes when an alien that's been hel...
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Amanda & the Alien
1982
The Ambush Murders
9/1
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims t...
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The Ambush Murders
1993
Remote
4.7/31
When 13-year-old Randy is forced to stash his remote control toys in a model home, he stumbles across the hideout of three prison escapees. With the u...
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Remote
2015
Forever
6.2/9
An investigative reporter finds the will to live again after discovering an enigmatic commune.
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Forever
1996
The Grave
5.1/14
Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.
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The Grave
2014
A Long Way Off
5.5/5
Jacob is tired of living on the family farm, submitting to the rules of his father. One day he demands an early inheritance from his father, who shock...
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A Long Way Off
1983
National Lampoon's Vacation
7.121/1502
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
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National Lampoon's Vacation
1995
Nixon
6.878/353
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon
1984
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
7.9/22
Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their re...
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Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
2001
Pearl Harbor
6.938/6351
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love...
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Pearl Harbor
1991
A Climate for Killing
3/3
Shortly before a rodeo festival week in Yuma County a body is found in the desert. It seems that it's Ria Paris, who was assumed to be killed by her h...
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A Climate for Killing
1996
Foxfire
6.036/125
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but...
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Foxfire
1990
MadHouse
5.3/73
The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
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MadHouse
1997
Fire Down Below
5.721/342
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working wit...
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Fire Down Below
2006
The Far Side of Jericho
4.1/7
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives...
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The Far Side of Jericho
2001
Falling Like This
4/2
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a co...
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Falling Like This
2006
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
6.9/105
When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and in...
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2017
Out of the Wild
6.5/5
The story of Henry McBride, a down and out cowboy with a painful past he can't drink away. Living on his last dollar with nowhere to go, he ends up wo...
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Out of the Wild
2004
I Pass for Human
0/0
Jane's lover Dax overdoses on heroin. Wanting to kill the pain of loss, Jane does dope for the first time and is soon on the way to addiction herself....
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I Pass for Human
1994
The Client
6.7/1090
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a...
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The Client
2016
The North Star
5/2
The North Star is the story of Benjamin "Big Ben" Jones and Moses Hopkins, two slaves who escaped from a Virginia plantation and made their way to fre...
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The North Star
2001
The Zeros
4.5/2
A slightly futuristic dark comedy about a young man who finds out he is dying, and goes in search of his first love.
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The Zeros
1982
Hysterical
4.9/10
Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is hau...
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Hysterical
1980
Falling in Love Again
5.5/10
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both...
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Falling in Love Again
1983
D.C. Cab
5.261/92
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company bu...
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D.C. Cab
2003
Bookies
6.3/40
Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention o...
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Bookies
2020
La Sirena
6/1
The lives of Penny, a nighttime police dispatcher, and Nino, a barber, get turned upside down when 10-year-old Speed drives a stolen muscle car into t...
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La Sirena
2020
Serpent in the Bottle
2.5/2
Serpent in the Bottle is a tragic tale of one young man's desire to conform to societal pressure in the face of his own personal internal conflicts.
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Serpent in the Bottle
1996
Managua
4.3/7
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua...
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Managua
1996
The Destiny of Marty Fine
0/0
Marty Fine is a small-time man with a big-time dream. One night, the ex-middleweight fighter sees something he shouldn't have - a mob hit. An old gang...
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The Destiny of Marty Fine
1993
The Paint Job
4/3
The peaceful existence of a suburban backwater is disrupted when Wesley, a troubled housepainter falls for Margaret, the sensitive wife of his boss, W...
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The Paint Job
1994
The New Age
5.52/25
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begi...
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The New Age
1999
Purgatory
7.286/118
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and th...
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Purgatory
1996
Female Perversions
5.054/46
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems i...
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Female Perversions
1998
The Rat Pack
5.872/39
After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo...
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The Rat Pack
2022
Armageddon Time
6.5/398
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins...
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Armageddon Time
2008
The Lucky Ones
6.399/164
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has mov...
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The Lucky Ones
1980
A Cry for Love
0/0
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and t...
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A Cry for Love
1995
Buffalo Girls
6.6/20
The bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' ru...
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Buffalo Girls
1997
Casualties
6.6/8
A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predicament. She discovers that she may have found the...
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Casualties
2002
Tully
6.341/22
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watchin...
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Tully
1993
Gettysburg
6.9/285
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching t...
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Gettysburg
1981
Escape from New York
7.068/3053
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam. After the US presiden...
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Escape from New York
2003
Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
0/0
A high school student is murdered in a satanic ritual.
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