John Diehl

John Diehl
Date of Birth: 01 May 1950
Country: USA
Biography: John Diehl is an American actor, particularly 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...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 54 (Actor)
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Jurassic Park III
Dr. Alan Grant (Neill) is now a happy man with the previous incidents of Jurassic Park now behind him. Grant is that happy that he announce in public, that nothing on Earth can persuade him back onto the islands. Maybe nothing, except Paul Kirby (Macy). Kirby and his wife, Amanda (Leoni) want a plane to fly them over Isla Sorna, with Dr. Grant as their guide. But not everything Kirby says is true... (imdb)
Lost Souls
A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They think it's his body Satan will occupy. The youngest in the group, a teacher named Maya Larkin, goes to Peter to investigate further and to convince him to believe in the possibility of Evil incarnate. Other signs come to him as he and Maya them take a journey full of strange occurrences, self-discovery, and an ultimate showdown. (imdb)
Tully
Based on the O'Henry Prize winning story by Tom McNeal, this film explores a legacy of love between a family of men, and the events of one summer that change their world forever. (TellTale Films)
Land of Plenty
A drama that investigates anxiety and disillusionment in America. (imdb)
Stargate
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra (imdb)
Falling Down
An unemployed defence worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. (imdb)
A Time to Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK. (imdb)
Escape from New York
In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Vacation
The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the WallyWorld theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated. (imdb)
Stripes
Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
The End of Violence
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films... (imdb)
D.C. Cab
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 but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. (imdb)
Foxfire
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them... (imdb)
Mo\
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, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals... (imdb)
Ruby Jean and Joe
The elderly and fading rodeo-rider Joe Wade (Tom Selleck) picks up the young female hitchhiker Ruby Jean (Rebekah Johnson). Even though that Joe is constantly being corrected by Ruby Jean their beginning friendship is growing. Their conversations on the road puts both of them in a position to deal with their lives. (imdb)
Amanda and the Alien
A young Bohemian artist falls in love with a human-eating alien. (imdb)
Whore
This choppy melodrama investigates the life of a prostitute in a pseudo-documentary style. The bottom line of the film is that a life of a hooker isn't easy... (imdb)
Madhouse
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. (imdb)
The Far Side of Jericho
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 from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure.
The Hi-Lo Country
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 II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart. (imdb)
Remote
Remote (1993) - Direct-to-Video
Home Alone clone about a 13-year-old boy, obsessed with making remote controlled toys, decides to put them to use when he's trapped in a vacant model suburban house with three moronic prison escapees whom he proceeds to make mincemeat out of them. (imdb)
The New Age
A yuppie couple that live an extravagantly new age lifestyle go into a tailspin when they hit financial hard times.
Motorama
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 playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game. (imdb)
Falling in Love Again
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40es as teenagers living in the Bronx. While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple. Will they see in the Bronx what they expected? Will the good memories from their past help rekindle their fading love? Is it too late to dream? (imdb)
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
This movie is suppose to be a sequel to the movie which starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Only now the movie revolves around the brother of the character that Van Damme played. David Sloan is the brother Van Damme's Kurt Sloan. He runs a Karate gym. Now Mr. Sangha, the Thai government official who handles Tong Po, the brutal kickboxer whom Van Damme in the previous movie, wishes that Tong Po would have another shot at Kurt Sloan. (imdb)
Female Perversions
Eve, a young, successful lawyer. Her days are a tightrope act between extreme eloquence and frosty toughness on the one side, and scaring vulnerability on the other. The climax of her career shall be the possibly forthcoming appointment as a judge, but this step seems to be interrupted by her kleptomanian sister Mad who is arrested after one of her raids. Eve travels to Mad's town to stand by her in the jail. Their struggle about Mad's illness evokes suppressed conflicts. (imdb.com)
Bookies
Centers on four college friends who become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime. (imdb)
The Hanoi Hilton
A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. The film focuses on the resistance the prisoners gave to their captors and the strong bonds formed by the Americans during their captivity. (imdb)
Mikey
Although Mikey is just a little boy, he is capable of anything.... Every family Mikey lives with has a series of unexplained "accidents" and hence he's moved from home to home. After his original family die, accidently, Mikey is taken by authorities and placed into the care of adoptive parents... (imdb)
Mind Ripper
James Stockton is a scientist working in a remote government facility focusing on human reanimation. Disgusted with the direction the work has taken, he leaves, only to be coaxed back seconds before his vacation by a phone call and his moral obligation to his patient. As he enters the facility, family in tow, little does he suspect his own creation has escaped, and things inside have taken a horrifying turn for the worse.
The Grave
Told from his prison cell, a man recounts his epic search for buried treasure through the Gothic swampland and cemeteries of the Deep South, and the mysterious and intriguing woman he encountered at every turn. (jbhifionline)
Angel
15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. (imdb)
Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas
In this thriller based on a true story, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas (Antonio Sabato Jr.) develops a murderous rage young. When he meets Ottis Toole (Kostas Sommer), the psychopaths set out on a helter-skelter killing spree that stumps officials -- all except two Texas Rangers. While the lawmen's hands are tied with procedural red tape, Lucas confesses to hundreds of killings as opportunistic detectives scurry to close out unsolved cases. (netflix.com)
I Pass for Human
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. She then discovers that drug users are being haunted by the ghosts of dead addicts. Soon she's being followed by her dead boyfriend Dax as well as other thirsty spirits. Jane meets Rick, a young man with his own similar story... (imdb)
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 the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself. (imdb)
Glitz
Glitz (1988) - TV Movie
Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against. Vincent's girlfriend leaves him for a job as a "hostess" in an Atlantic City casino, then turns up dead. In Puerto Rico, a cabbie is also found dead. It's up to Vincent to travel to Atlantic City to see if there is a connection. (imdb)
Road to Nowhere
There's a murky tenuous balance between reality and fiction; particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide. A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. (imdb)
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Giving a glimpse of Sam Axe's past, the Burn Notice spin off shows him on a mission in Columbia, investigating a local terrorist organization.
Buffalo Girls
Wild. Untamed. Legendary. Buffalo Girls celebrates 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' rugged cowgirl, is searching not only for her long-lost daughter, but the Wild West she once knew. Jane traverses plains, mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems: Dora, the vivacious, gold-hearted madam who's been her one true friend all along. (imdb)
The Ambush Murders
The fact-based TV movie The Ambush Murders was adapted from a book by Ben Bradlee Jr. Dorian Harewood plays an African-American political activist who is loyal to his ideals and faithful to his friends and family. After two white policemen are killed, Harewood is charge with the crime. 49 months and two mistrials later, Harewood remains in prison. (allmovie.com)
A Long Way Off
In this modern day retelling of the timeless Prodigal Son Parable, young Jacob is tired of living on the family farm, submitting to the rules of his Father, Mr. Abraham. One day he demands an early inheritance from his father, who shocks his young son by agreeing to give it to him. So, he heads to the big city doing things his way without restraint, and for a while he does well-surprisingly well.
A Climate for Killing
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 husband before he took his own life already 16 years ago - however the cadaver's no that old! Together with his new ambitious colleague Paul McCraw Sheriff Kyle starts to investigate in the old case again, trying to avoid shaking up the community of the small town during the celebrations.
Singularity Principle
The consequences of renegade experiments into Parallel Universes. (imdb)
Miami Vice
Miami Vice (1984) - TV Series
The adventures of the vice squad detectives of the Miami Police Department. (imdb)
Forever
Alice is a young investigative reporter. She suffers a sorrowful loss but finds an enigmatic commune where she starts to find her will to live and love again.
Out of the Wild
Out of the Wild is 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 working the last place an old cowboy wants to be: A dude ranch. It is here he meets the owner, Jessie King, a no-nonsense rancher with a deep love for horses. McBride's self-discovery begins when she introduces him to a new way of training a troubled mustang, a horse whose past and temperament mirror his own.
Almost Human
Almost Human (2013) - TV Series
Dark Winds
Dark Winds (2022) - TV Series
Follows Leaphorn and Chee, two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.
The X-Files
The X-Files (1993) - TV Series
Almost Dead
A woman psychologist, who specialises in research about twins, is haunted by her dead mothers ghost.
The Paint Job
About a love triangle, involving house painter, his boss and the boss' sensitive, vulnerable wife. The film turns into a picture of hidden desires, romantic dreams and dangerous obsessions.
The Outer Limits
Hidden Places
A widowed Californian farmer with two children is struggling during the time of the Great Depression in America. When a drifter offers to help her, she feels he is the answer to her prayers.