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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Waco: The Aftermath (2023)

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.

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 8 nominations total

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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

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Reese Bobby

2006

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

6.7

Cotton McKnight

2004

One Hour Photo

6.8

Bill Owens

2002

The Gift

6.7

David Duncan

2000

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NCIS
7.8
TV Series
- Alden Parker
- 2021–2025
Family Guy
8.1
TV Series
- Principal Shepherd
- Optometrist
- Billy's Father (voice) ...
- 2000–2025
Madam Ram
7.4
Podcast Series
- Carroll Rosenbloom
- 2025
Behind the Lines
9.4
- David Embree
- Ed Marcellus
- 2024
Velma
1.6
TV Series
- Lamont
- General Meeting (voice)
- 2023–2024
Bob's Burgers
8.2
TV Series
- Sergeant Bosco (voice)
- 2012–2024
Big Mouth
7.8
TV Series
- Edward MacDell (voice)
- 2019–2023
NCIS Season 20 Unforgettable
Video
- 2023
Waco: The Aftermath
7.3
TV Mini Series
- Gordon Novel
- 2023
White House Plumbers
6.8
TV Mini Series
- Mark Felt
- 2023
Agent Elvis
6.8
TV Series
- President Nixon (voice)
- 2023
NCIS: Los Angeles
6.8
TV Series
- Alden Parker
- 2023
NCIS: Hawai'i
6.8
TV Series
- Alden Parker
- 2022–2023
Inside Job
7.7
TV Series
- Brett's Dad
- Sitcom Dad
- Male Cop (voice)
- 2021–2022
The Good Fight
8.3
TV Series
- Kurt McVeigh
- 2017–2022

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Mystery Solvers Club State Finals

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Mystery Solvers Club State Finals

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Mystery Solvers Club State Finals

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Mystery Solvers Club State Finals

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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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Height
- 6′ (1.83 m)
Born
- September 20, 1956
- Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
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- Mary Cole
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TV commercial: World of Warcraft video game
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Went to college with John Malkovich.

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(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.