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Gary Cole(I)

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Gary Cole at an event for The Joneses (2009)
Explores the events and the uneven scales of justice the surviving Branch Davidians faced.Also follows the horrific events fueled the emerging 'Patriot' movement, which led to the terrorism act in Oklahoma City.
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Gary Michael Cole is an American television, film and voice actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. On television, he has had starring roles in the TV series Midnight Caller, American Gothic, The West Wing, Crusade, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Veep, Chicago Fire, and Mixed. In film, he has appeared in The Brady Bunch Movie, One Hour Photo, Office Space, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Breach, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. He is also known for voicing the title character on the Adult Swim series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Principal Shepherd on Family Guy, and James Timothy Possible on Kim Possible. As of season 19, Cole joined NCIS, taking over from Mark Harmon, who left the show, as FBI Special Agent, and new head of Gibbs' team, Alden Parker.
BornSeptember 20, 1956
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BornSeptember 20, 1956
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
    • 2 wins & 8 nominations total

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Gary Cole and Chris Cooper in Breach (2007)
Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)
Gary Cole and Nick Searcy in American Gothic (1995)
Jim Antonio, Gary Cole, and John Shearin in American Gothic (1995)
Brenda Bakke and Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)
Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)
Lucas Black and Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)
Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)
Gary Cole and Paige Turco in American Gothic (1995)
Lucas Black and Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)
Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)
Gary Cole in American Gothic (1995)

Known for

John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, and Sacha Baron Cohen in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
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  • Reese Bobby
  • 2006
Robin Williams in One Hour Photo (2002)
One Hour Photo
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  • Bill Owens
  • 2002
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
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  • Cotton McKnight
  • 2004
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Office Space
7.6
  • Bill Lumbergh
  • 1999

Credits

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Actor

  • Waco: The Aftermath
    • Gordon Novel
    • Completed
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
    • Alden Parker
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2023
  • Agent Elvis (2023)
    Agent Elvis
    • President Nixon (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Alex Borstein, and Seth MacFarlane in Family Guy (1999)
    Family Guy
    • Principal Shepherd
    • Mike Brady
    • Michael Eisner (voice) ...
    • TV Series
    • 2000–2023
  • Mindy Kaling in Velma (2023)
    Velma
    • Lamont
    • General Meeting (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • NCIS: Los Angeles (2009)
    NCIS: Los Angeles
    • Alden Parker
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • Jason Antoon, Vanessa Lachey, Noah Mills, Yasmine Al-Bustami, and Alex Tarrant in NCIS: Hawai'i (2021)
    NCIS: Hawai'i
    • Alden Parker
    • TV Series
    • 2022–2023
  • Lizzy Caplan in Inside Job (2021)
    Inside Job
    • Brett's Dad
    • Male Cop
    • Sitcom Dad (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2022
  • Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald in The Good Fight (2017)
    The Good Fight
    • Kurt McVeigh
    • TV Series
    • 2017–2022
  • American Dad! (2005)
    American Dad!
    • Ted Robinson (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2022
  • Walmart's Black Friday Deals for Days: Case of the Mondays
    • Bill Lumbergh
    • Short
    • 2022
  • Andrew Rannells, Pamela Adlon, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Brandon Kyle Goodman, and Ayo Edebiri in Big Mouth (2017)
    Big Mouth
    • Edward MacDell (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2022
  • Mike Judge in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
    Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
    • Mattison (voice)
    • 2022
  • H. Jon Benjamin, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Dan Mintz, and John Roberts in The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022)
    The Bob's Burgers Movie
    • Sergeant Bosco (voice)
    • 2022
  • Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Paul Rust, Jenny Slate, Dulcé Sloan, and Aparna Nancherla in The Great North (2021)
    The Great North
    • Elwin Kreb (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • The Tom and Jerry Show (2014)
    The Tom and Jerry Show
    • Narrator (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2014–2021

Additional Crew

  • Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Chad Doreck, Ashley Eckstein, Blake Foster, Max Morrow, Autumn Reeser, and Sofia Vassilieva in The Brady Bunch in the White House (2002)
    The Brady Bunch in the White House
    • consultant
    • TV Movie
    • 2002

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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
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Personal details

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  • Height
    • 6′ (1.83 m)
  • Born
    • September 20, 1956
    • Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
  • Spouse
    • Teddi SiddallMarch 8, 1992 - February 4, 2018 (her death, 1 child)
  • Children
    • Mary Cole
  • Parents
      Robert Cole
  • Other works
    TV commercial: World of Warcraft video game
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    • 3 Interviews
    • 4 Articles
    • 2 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Went to college with John Malkovich.
  • Quotes
    (On landing To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)) [William] Petersen is an old friend of mine from a long time ago. We started a theater company in Chicago, and he's the one that got me on that. I was out here in Los Angeles. Billy was renting a big house while he was doing the movie, and there were other Chicago actors out here migrating, mooching off of him while we were out in L.A. auditioning for stuff. And there were some roles in it, and he mentioned me to William Friedkin, so I just got this role as one of a bunch of bad guys that Billy hunted down. (While filming it) I never ran so much in a day in my life. It was somewhere out in a railyard outside of downtown near a bridge, like a train trestle. And it was running there, it was running across the bridge, and it was running through the industrial park, and finally Billy tackles me and roughs me up. But we ran all day long.
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      Usually plays cold, calculating authority figures

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