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John Diehl

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5/1/1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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John Henry Diehl

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Before becoming an actor, John Diehl was a used-car salesman living in Holland. He also travelled around Europe for several years. He married popular songstress Julie Christensen in February 1992. They have a son named Jackson, who was born in 1993.

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Star (37)

Role
- Road to Nowhere
  Star
  2011
- Walker
  Star
  2010
- Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
  Star
  2009
- Follow the Prophet
  Star
  2009
- The Lucky Ones
  Star
  2008
- The Far Side of Jericho
  Star
  2006
- Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
  Star
  2006
- Land of Plenty
  Star
  2004
- Tully
  Star
  2002
- Jurassic Park III
  Cooper
  2001
- The Zeros
  Star
  2001
- Falling Like This
  Star
  2000
- Lost Souls
  Star
  2000
- Monument Ave.
  Star
  1998
- The Hi-Lo Country
  Star
  1998
- Casualties
  Star
  1997
- Female Perversions
  Star
  1997
- The Lazarus Man
  Nat Patchett
  - S 1: Ep 2 Awakening (pt 2)
    1/27/96
  - S 1: Ep 1 Awakening (pt 1)
    1/20/96
- Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
  Star
  1996
- Nixon
  Gordon Liddy
  1995
- Stargate
  Lieutenant Kawalsky
  1994
- The Client
  Jack Nance
  1994
- Almost Dead
  Star
  1994
- The New Age
  Star
  1994
- Falling Down
  Dad at Back Yard
  1993
- Gettysburg
  Pvt. Bucklin
  1993
- Motorama
  Star
  1993
- Mo' Money
  Keith Heading
  1992
- Kickboxer 2
  Star
  1991
- Madhouse
  Star
  1990
- Cool Blue
  Star
  1990
- The Dark Side of the Moon
  Philip Jennings
  1990
- Miami Vice
  Det. Lawrence "Larry" Zito
  - S 3: Ep 13 Down for the Count (2)
    1/16/87
  - S 3: Ep 12 Down for the Count (1)
    1/9/87
  - S 3: Ep 11 Forgive Us Our Debts
    12/12/86
  - S 3: Ep 10 Streetwise
    12/5/86
  - S 3: Ep 9 Baby Blues
    11/21/86
  - + 51 More Credits
- Miami Vice
  Det. Lawrence "Larry" Zito (Season 1-3)
- National Lampoon's Vacation
  Assistant Mechanic
  1983
- D.C. Cab
  Star
  1983
- Stripes
  Pvt. Cruiser
  1981
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Role
- The Shield
  Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy
  - S 2: Ep 9 Co-Pilot
    3/4/03
  - S 1: Ep 8 Cupid & Psycho
    4/30/02
  - S 1: Ep 7 Pay In Pain
    4/23/02
  - S 1: Ep 2 Our Gang
    3/19/02
  - + 1 More Credits
Guest Star (45)

Role
- Rizzoli & Isles
  Arthur Dunbar
  - S 2: Ep 8 My Own Worst Enemy
    8/29/11
- Lie to Me
  Charlie Everett
  - S 3: Ep 7 Veronica
    11/22/10
- Mental
  Hank Crowley
  - S 1: Ep 6 Rainy Days
    7/3/09
- Women's Murder Club
  Paul Galvan
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Past Comes Back to Haunt You
    11/16/07
- Cold Case
  Isaac Keller
  - S 4: Ep 18 A Dollar, A Dream
    3/18/07
- Cold Case
  Keller
  - S 4: Ep 17 Shuffle, Ball Change
    3/11/07
- Jericho
  Trader
  - S 1: Ep 14 Black Jack
    2/28/07
- Jesse Stone
  Jerry Snyder
  - S 1: Ep 3 Death in Paradise
    4/30/06
- Strong Medicine
  Unknown
  - S 6: Ep 9 GSR/Gunshot Wedding
    8/21/05
- The Shield
  Ben Gilroy (Uncredited)
  - S 4: Ep 2 Grave
    3/22/05
- Point Pleasant
  David Burke
  - S 1: Ep 8 Swimming With Boyd
    3/17/05
  - S 1: Ep 6 Secrets and Lies
    2/17/05
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Lonely Hunter
    2/3/05
  - S 1: Ep 13 Let the War Commence
  - S 1: Ep 9 Waking the Dead
- Karen Sisco
  Junior McLeod
  - S 1: Ep 5 Nostalgia
    10/29/03
- L.A. Dragnet
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 8 Sticks and Stones
    3/30/03
- The Shield
  Ben Gilroy
  - S 2: Ep 10 Coyotes
    3/11/03
- The West Wing
  Claypool
  - S 4: Ep 11 Holy Night
    12/11/02
  - S 1: Ep 11 Lord John Marbury
    1/5/00
- The Guardian
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 10 Sacrifice
    12/10/02
- Without a Trace
  Guest Star
- The Shield
  Assistan Chief Ben Gilroy
  - S 1: Ep 4 Dawg Days
    4/2/02
- NYPD Blue
  Joe Brady
  - S 9: Ep 17 Gypsy Woe's Me
    3/26/02
- Get Real
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 14 Tough Love
    2/2/00
- 18 Wheels of Justice
  Matt Curran
  - S 1: Ep 3 Mr. Invisible
    1/26/00
- JAG
  Raglan
  - S 5: Ep 7 Rogue
    11/9/99
- The X-Files
  Wilson "Pinker" Rawls
  - S 6: Ep 17 Trevor
    4/11/99
- The Pretender
  Sheriff Delmont
  - S 2: Ep 19 Red Rock Jarod
    5/2/98
- Stargate SG-1
  Lt. Colonel Adam Kawalsky
- The Outer Limits
  Joe Paulson
  - S 3: Ep 15 Revelations of Becka Paulson
    6/6/97
- Nash Bridges
  Albert Foss
  - S 2: Ep 15 The Counterfeiters
    1/24/97
- ER
  Johnson's Son
  - S 3: Ep 3 Don't Ask, Don't Tell
    10/10/96
- Profiler
  Prisoner
  - S 1: Ep 2 Ring of Fire
    9/28/96
- The Lazarus Man
  ?
- The John Larroquette Show
  Chris
  - S 3: Ep 1 More Changes
    9/30/95
  - S 2: Ep 16 Whipping Post
    2/7/95
  - S 2: Ep 8 The Book of Rachel
    11/15/94
  - S 4: Ep 7 Napping to Success
- The Marshal
  Earl "The Beast" Lipscomb
  - S 1: Ep 7 Bounty Hunter
    3/11/95
- L.A. Law
  Tim
  - S 8: Ep 14 God is My Co-Counsel
    3/10/94
- Mann & Machine
  Cody Shannon
  - S 1: Ep 1 Prototype
    4/5/92
- L.A. Law
  Kevin Delahanty
  - S 4: Ep 20 Forgive Me Father, For I Have Sued
    5/3/90
- In the Heat of the Night
  John Sevrance
  - S 3: Ep 12 Triangle
    1/23/90
- Falcon Crest
  Gus Wallach
  - S 9: Ep 1 The Price of Freedom
    9/29/89
- Beauty and the Beast
  Vernon
  - S 2: Ep 19 The Hollow Men
    5/5/89
- Monsters
  Miles
  - S 1: Ep 10 Pillow Talk
    12/24/88
- Monsters
  ?
- Hunter
  Criminal in bank next to Hunter
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    9/18/84
- Hill Street Blues
  Tom
  - S 2: Ep 7 Chipped Beef
    12/17/81
- Dead Last
  Richard Stengler
  - S 1: Ep 6 To Serve, With Love
- Annie Oakley
  Johnson
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Iron Smoke Wagon
    8/14/54
- Boston Blackie
  guest star
  - S 1: Ep 3 Oil Field Murder
    9/22/51

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- John Diehl is an actor, boxer, and producer.
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- In 1981, John Diehl made his feature film debut in the movie Stripes.
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- John Diehl is best known as Detective Larry Zito on the cop show Miami Vice.
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- John Diehl co-produced the movie Falling Like This.
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- John Diehl has appeared in movies like Pearl Harbor, The House Is Burning, Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise, Hidden Places, Running Out of Time in Hollywood, Down in the Valley, Land of Plenty, I Pass for Human, Bookies, Just Another Story, and Jurassic Park III.
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- John Diehl made his professional boxing debut on December 21, 1985, at the Miami Beach Convention Center on 17th Street in South Beach.
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- John Diehl has appeared in over 70 movies and has made over 40 guest appearances on TV.
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Fan Reviews (1)

Some of the staff really did cry when he died on 'Vice'.

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By alancoren, Jul 01, 2005

Here is the consummate character actor, someone who disappears into a part, and you wait for the credits to learn his name -- and then you don't recognize him the next time you see him because he's become somebody else. Not something someone like... oh, Tom Cruise is capable of doing. Zito really did seem to be different/deeper from the others on the Miami-Dade force (which BTW, was basically the county sheriff and wouldn't have been making all those busts in the City of Miami and Miami Beach) -- it was sad that he was relegated most of the time to comic relief with Switek. But the talent showed through numerous times -- and when they killed him, unbelievably killed him -- I was in the room with the only freelance writer who'd worked on the first two seasons of Vice, and yes, he wept. He says, in three decades of TV work, that it was the only time he'd mourned the loss of a character he'd written for. Good writing -- great acting.moreless
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