John Diehl
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John Henry Diehl (born May 1, 1950) is an American film, television, and stage actor.
Diehl has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows, including Land of Plenty, Stripes, Nixon, Jurassic Park III, and the TV show Miami Vice and The Shield, as well as the film "Teddy Mair." Diehl has "largely avoided the typecasting that is an accepted part of most character actors' careers." Since 2004, he has been a member of The Actors Studio.
Early life
In 1950, Diehl was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. John A. Diehl, his father, was a civil engineer, and Mary, his mother, was a social worker. He was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic family and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1968.
Personal life
In 1992, Diehl and singer Julie Christensen were married. Magnus Jackson Diehl and his family reside in Nashville, Tennessee, and they have one son, Magnus Jackson Diehl.
He competed in two professional tournaments (one win and one loss), and in several exhibition-shows for charity.
Career
Diehl, a 1970 graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, moved to New York, being encouraged by his sister, who had just graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He lived in Amsterdam in 1971 and then returned to New York in 1972. He migrated to Los Angeles in 1976. He had always been interested in drawing and making things and hoped to pursue a career in the visual arts. Originally, he supported himself in LA by shifting furniture and objet d'art.
Despite the fact that he had no previous acting experience, Diehl's enthusiasm changed to acting after he landed in Los Angeles. He attended a three-hour scene studies class in Hollywood twice a week, and in 1979, he appeared in Action, a one-act play written by Sam Shepard. In 1980, he became an acting member of Murray Mednick's Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, an annual festival that brings young playwrights from around the country together to live and work with such playwrights as Mednick, Shepard, Maria Irene Fornes, John O'Keefe, John Steppling, and Robert Glaudini. Diehl spent time as an acting member of the festival for many years.
Diehl's first film appearance was in the 1981 film Stripes. John Laroquette compared John Candy and Diehl's improvisation to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's improvisation on Stripes' 25th anniversary DVD release. Diehl appeared in National Lampoon's Vacation, which Harold Ramis directed in 1983.
Diehl was portrayed in Miami Vice as Detective Larry Zito in 1984. Diehl found the position unfull and left early. Diehl's last appearance in a two-part episode, "Down for the Count," in which his character was killed off, was on January 9, 1987, the 57th episode of Miami Vice.
Diehl then moved to a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, New York, and despite a drastic decrease in his income, he stayed in television instead of pursuing a serious stage career. He appeared in The Hanoi Hilton (1987), a film about American prisoners of war in Hanoi in the 1960s/70s, and Alex Cox's Walker (1987), which was shot in Nicaragua during the Contra War. Diehl immigrated to Los Angeles in late 1988 after being cast in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind at the Mark Taper Forum.
He continued to work in theater in New York, but he returned to the stage regularly, most notably for a Shepard performance at the Public Theater in New York and Mednick's Joe And Betty, which were produced twice on Theater Row in New York.
Diehl's return to Action at the Public Theater in 1997 was revived, and he appeared in two scenes in Mednick's Gary Trilogy in 2005. Life of Mine (with Holly Hunter) at the Mark Taper Forum, Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Happy Days, one of three plays directed by Diehl, is among his many performances.
He has appeared in more than 140 films, including Joysticks (1983), Angel (1984), Gettysburg (1992), and Road to Nowhere (2010).
G. Gordon Liddy appeared in Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995), the mercenary Cooper in Jurassic Park III (2001), and in several films on The Shield, Friday Night Lights, The West Wing, and The John Larroquette Exhibition. He appeared in Fail Safe, a television show that aired live on television. In a string of television commercials for Buick between 2002 and 2004, he portrayed GM's Harley Earl. Tony Scott, who had previously produced Top Gun and Crimson Tide, was behind the commercials.
Diehl was the male protagonist in Land of Plenty, a documentary about post 9/11 American life by Wim Wenders in 2004. Diehl's film, "Paul, a struggling Vietnam veteran and his niece, portrayed by Michelle Williams, was shot on digital video in sixteen days. A.O.'s film was in a The New York Times review. Diehl's "wry, cunning show, allowing glimmers of Paul's intelligence and decency to shine through even in his moments of intense self-delusion," Scott said.
Diehl, a member of the Actors Studio since 2004, received the Los Angeles Times Warren Award in 2012 and was named in the Southampton Film Festival as the Lead Actor Award in 2014.