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