Gary Cole
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 183
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
NCIS
2003
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Supernatural
2005
Family Guy
1999
American Dad!
2005
Rick and Morty
2013
Chicago Fire
2012
Desperate Housewives
2004
Suits
2011
Frasier
1993
The Good Wife
2009
The West Wing
1999
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
King of the Hill
1997
Bob's Burgers
2011
The Closer
2005
Monk
2002
Psych
2006
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Kim Possible
2002
The Tom and Jerry Show
2014
Miami Vice
1984
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Unforgettable
2011
Entourage
2004
Arrested Development
2003
30 Rock
2006
Chuck
2007
The Penguins of Madagascar
2008
Archer
2009
Numb3rs
2005
True Blood
2008
The Practice
1997
We Bare Bears
2015
American Playhouse
1982
The Legend of Korra
2012
Touched by an Angel
1994
Hart of Dixie
2011
The Good Fight
2017
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
Love, Death & Robots
2019
NCIS: Hawaiʻi
2021
Batman Beyond
1999
The Great North
2021
Big Mouth
2017
Moonlighting
1985
Veep
2012
The Outer Limits
1995
The Twilight Zone
1985
The Venture Bros.
2004
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020
Krapopolis
2023
Angie Tribeca
2016
A Man on the Inside
2024
Family Law
1999
Justice League Action
2016
Pound Puppies
2010
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
To Tell the Truth
2016
Justice League
2001
Shark
2006
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014
F is for Family
2015
Trolls: TrollsTopia
2020
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
Velma
2023
Inside Job
2021
Midnight Caller
1988
Hack
2002
Room 104
2017
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
The Good Guys
2010
Project Greenlight
2001
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
2000
The Art of Racing in the Rain
2019
Pineapple Express
2008
White House Plumbers
2023
The Ring Two
2005
Hop
2011
Office Space
1999
Blockers
2018
The Gift
2000
mixed-ish
2019
Batman: Under the Red Hood
2010
Breach
2007
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006
In the Line of Fire
1993
I Spy
2002
Agent Elvis
2023
One Hour Photo
2002
Crusade
1999
The Bob's Burgers Movie
2022
American Gothic
1995
Wanted
2005
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
2017
A Simple Plan
1998
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
2020
Cry_Wolf
2005
Waco: The Aftermath
2023
Q-Force
2021
Gang Related
1997
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
2005
Mercy Street
2016
Cadet Kelly
2002
Tammy
2014
Date and Switch
2014
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004
The Brady Bunch Movie
1995
The Joneses
2010
Lucas
1986
Karen Sisco
2003
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
2007
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
2018
Small Crimes
2017
The Bronze
2016
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022
Extract
2009
I'll Be Home for Christmas
1998
Fam
2019
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
Family Affair
2002
Son of the Morning Star
1991
Mr. Robinson
2015
Forever Strong
2008
The Old Man and the Sea
1990
Good Behavior
2008
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
2003
The Great Debate
2009
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
A Very Brady Sequel
1996
First Steps
1985
Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire
2019
Fatal Vision
1984
For My Daughter's Honor
1996
Mozart and the Whale
2005
Conspiracy
2008
Justice League: Secret Origins
2001
Vamp U
2013
Company Town
Ricochet
2011
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994
Heart of Steel
1983
DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection
2010
Behind the Lines
Christmas Eve
2015
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
Married Young
2019
Seven in Heaven
2018
Divine Access
2015
Darkness Falls
2020
The Chicago 8
2011
My Wife Is Retarded
2007
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2010
American Pastime
2007
Everyday Miracles
2015
An Officer and a Murderer
2012
NCISverse: The First 1,000
2024
The Switch
1993
American Adventure
2000
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
A Time to Heal
1994
A Good Funeral
2009
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
1993
Lies He Told
1997
Criminology 101
2003
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
Pop Rocks
2004
Kiss the Sky
1998
Fall from Grace
1994
Under the Eiffel Tower
2019
A Matter of Principle
1984
The Brady Bunch in the White House
2002
DC Showcase: The Spectre
2010
Hot Air
2016
Those She Left Behind
1989
Market Hours
2014
The Rising Place
2001
The Last Rites of Joe May
2011
Santa Fe
1997
Cyclops, Baby
1997
Vital Signs
1986