Gary Cole
Acting

Gary Cole

Born 20 September 1956 · Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
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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.

Known for

Rick and Morty
Supernatural
Suits
Family Guy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Pineapple Express
Love, Death & Robots
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Office Space
NCIS
The Ring Two
American Dad!
The Bob's Burgers Movie
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Darkness Falls
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Under the Eiffel Tower
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire
Married Young
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Seven in Heaven
Blockers
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
Small Crimes
The Bronze
Hot Air
Everyday Miracles
Christmas Eve
Divine Access
Date and Switch
Tammy
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Market Hours
Vamp U
An Officer and a Murderer
Hop
The Last Rites of Joe May
Ricochet
The Chicago 8
Batman: Under the Red Hood
The Joneses
DC Showcase: The Spectre
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection
A Good Funeral
Pineapple Express
Forever Strong
Conspiracy
Breach
American Pastime
My Wife Is Retarded
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
The Ring Two
Cry_Wolf
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
Mozart and the Whale
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
Pop Rocks
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
One Hour Photo
Cadet Kelly
The Brady Bunch in the White House
I Spy
The Rising Place
Justice League: Secret Origins
The Gift
Office Space
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Kiss the Sky
A Simple Plan
Gang Related
Santa Fe
Cyclops, Baby
Lies He Told
A Very Brady Sequel
For My Daughter's Honor
The Brady Bunch Movie
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
A Time to Heal
Fall from Grace
In the Line of Fire
The Switch
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
The Old Man and the Sea
Those She Left Behind
Echoes in the Darkness
Lucas
First Steps
A Matter of Principle
Heart of Steel
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