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Gary Cole

Born 1956-09-20

📍 Park Ridge, Illinois, USA

Gary Michael Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American stage and screen actor, best known for his supporting roles in numerous television and film productions such as Jack "Nighthawk" Killian in Midnight Caller or as Bill Lumbergh in Office Space.

In 1984, he played the lead role of Green Beret Army Officer Jeffrey MacDonald, along with Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint, in the true crime TV mini-series Fatal Vision, based on the book of the same name. Based on the real-life murders of the wife and daughters of U.S. Army officer Jeffrey R. MacDonald at Fort Bragg in 1970.

He landed the lead role on NCIS in 2021, taking over as the team's supervisor.

Filmography 209

A Man on the Inside

NCISverse: The First 1,000

as Valley King (voice)

White House Plumbers

Waco: The Aftermath

as Gordon Novel

as President Nixon (voice)

as Lamont (voice)

as Lamont / General Meeting (voice)

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

as Mattison (voice)

The Bob's Burgers Movie

as Sgt. Bosco (voice)

as Brett's father (voice)

as Sitcom Dad / Male Cop (voice)

as Alden Parker

as Dirk Chunley (voice)

The Great North

as Elwin Kreb (voice)

Trolls: TrollsTopia

as Sky Toronto (voice)

DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family

as Two-Face / Commissioner James Gordon / Reporter 4 (voice)

Star Trek: Lower Decks

as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire

as Invisibilio (voice)

as Harrison Johnson

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Love, Death & Robots

as The Inspector (voice)

Under the Eiffel Tower

Seven in Heaven

Unbroken: Path to Redemption

as Dr. George Bailey

as Matthew's Father (voice)

as Andrew's Father (voice)

as Edward MacDell (voice)

as Chip Crawford

as Lieutenant Pleasant

as Kurt McVeigh

Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown

as Rafe (voice)

Justice League Action

as Black Adam (voice)

The $100,000 Pyramid

To Tell the Truth

as Self - Panelist

as Stan Greggory

as James Green, Sr.

as Professor Everett Lamereau

F is for Family

as Roger Dunbarton (voice)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Reverend Guy Roy Davis

Everyday Miracles

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

as Brock (voice)

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

as Chief Deputy Tillman

The Tom and Jerry Show

as Narrator (voice)

Date and Switch

as Alien Doctor (voice)

as Arthur Levine

as Chief Grissom

An Officer and a Murderer

as Russell Williams

as Kent Davison

The Legend of Korra

as Dai Li Sergeant / Rich Man (voice)

The Legend of Korra

as Dai Li Sergeant (voice)

as Judge Cato Laird

The Last Rites of Joe May

as Dr. Ethan Hart

as Clay Tendler

as Cameron Dennis

as Bill Kunstler

as Henry O'Hare

as Sergeant Bosco (voice)

DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection

as Jim Corrigan / The Spectre (segment "The Spectre") (voice)

as Slick (voice)

Batman: Under the Red Hood

as Bobo / Commissioner Gordon / Shot / Guard (voice)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

as Mayor Fred Jones Sr. / Black Knight (voice)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

as Mayor Fred Jones Sr. (voice)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

as Mayor Fred Jones Sr. / Foreman (voice)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

as Mayor Fred Jones Sr. / Motorcycle Cop (voice)

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

as Mayor Fred Jones Sr. / Paramedic #2 (voice)

as Frank Savage

as Larry Symonds

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

as Mr. Yankovic

DC Showcase: The Spectre

as Jim Corrigan / The Spectre (voice)

DC Showcase Animated Shorts

as Jim Corrigan

as Kurt McVeigh

NCIS: Los Angeles

as Alden Parker

as Special Agent Hawley (voice)

as Bar Patron (uncredited)

as Stan Talmadge

The Penguins of Madagascar

as Commissioner (voice)

as Coach Larry Gelwix

as Earl Stackhouse

Pineapple Express

Phineas and Ferb

as Principal Lang (voice)

American Pastime

as Billy Burrell

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning

My Wife Is Retarded

as Dr. Heichmann

as Christian Chambers

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

as Cameron Luntz

as Mr. Matthews

as Brad Redding

Mozart and the Whale

as Major Edward Dorcet

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

as Dr. Possible (voice)

as Martin Savide

as Ted Robinson (voice)

as Shepard Crater

Desperate Housewives

as Jerry "Dagger" Harden

The Venture Bros.

as Professor Von Helping (voice)

as Andrew Klein

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

as Cotton McKnight

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time

as Dr. Possible (Dad) (voice)

Arrested Development

as Richard Shaw

as Alden Parker

The Brady Bunch in the White House

as Johnny Scanlon

as Dexter Larson

as Dr. James Possible (voice)

as Additional Voices (voice)

as Dr. James Possible / Fashion Show Announcer (voice)

as Dr. James Possible / Cab Driver (voice)

Project Greenlight

Justice League: Secret Origins

as J. Allen Carter (voice)

as J. Allen Carter (voice)

The Rising Place

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

as Harvey Birdman (voice)

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

as Judge Hiram Mightor (voice)

as David Duncan

Curb Your Enthusiasm

as Joe O'Donnell

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Xander Henry

as Matthew Gideon

as Bill Lumbergh

as Bill Lumbergh / Priest (voice)

as Father O'Leary (voice)

as NCIS Fan (voice)

as Billy's Father (voice)

as Principal Shepherd / Optometrist (voice)

as Michael Eisner (voice)

as Jerry Nelson / Various (voice)

as Chairman (voice)

as Warren Fredericks (voice)

as Principal Shepard (voice)

as Dr. Franklin (voice)

as Mike Brady / Thug #1 (voice)

as James 'Grizzly' Adams (voice)

as Cop / Coach (voice)

as Security Guard (voice)

as Mike Brady (voice)

as Principal Shepherd (voice)

as Reporter (voice)

as Principal Shepherd(voice)

as Zeta (voice)

I'll Be Home for Christmas

From the Earth to the Moon

as Richard Simms

as Defense Attorney Solomon Tager

as Atty. Brian Seabury

King of the Hill

as Vance Gilbert (voice)

For My Daughter's Honor

A Very Brady Sequel

American Gothic

as Sheriff Lucas Buck

The Outer Limits

as Detective Ray Venable

The Brady Bunch Movie

Touched by an Angel

as Charlie Radcliff

Fall from Grace

as Maj. Tom O'Neill

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

as James (segment "The Theatre")

In the Line of Fire

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

as Larry McAfee

Son of the Morning Star

as George Armstrong Custer

The Old Man and the Sea

Those She Left Behind

as Scott Grimes

Midnight Caller

as Jack 'Nighthawk' Killian

Echoes in the Darkness

Echoes in the Darkness

as Assistant Coach

To Live and Die in L.A.

as Man Chased by Richard (uncredited)

The Twilight Zone

as Daniel Gaddis (segment "Her Pilgrim Soul")

as Alan McClafferty

A Matter of Principle

as Man with Christmas Tree

as Jeffrey MacDonald

as Jackson Crane

Behind the Lines