Gary Cole

He was hilarious as Kent on Veep

Also great on The Good Wife/The Good Fight as Diane's uber-conservative husband, a ballistics expert. Although sometimes the character irritates me, he is really good in the role.

He was surprised when he got the offer to be in the first Brady Bunch movie because he didn't have much comedy on his resume. But his sincere delivery ended up being perfect for it.

I’ve loved him ever since he played Lucus Buck on American Gothic.

He’s fucking hilarious on Bob’s Burgers

He is very hot as a lean older daddy. He just took over from Mark Harmon as the team leader on NCIS. It's nice he's finally in a starring role on a popular old folks cbs show. He plays it very charismatic and lighthearted. This 3.5 minute clip shows him just taking over and the ncis team member's "wtf" reactions. Quite funny.

He is extremely versatile with his comedic ability. It was years before I realized he was both Bill Lumbergh in Office Space AND Mike Brady in the Brady Bunch movies.

Yeah, his range just knocks me out. From a stone-cold psycho in Fatal Vision to basically the comedic version of MacDonald (Lumbergh) to a spot-on rendition of Robert Reed as Mike Brady, Cole is letter perfect.

Big fan and super HAWT.

All I know about him, OP, is he was the younger brother on Diff’rent Strokes. He was good in that.

I just realized that Gary Oldman (63) is 1.5 years YOUNGER than Cole (65). Yet Oldman looks older, has a more obvious artificial hairline, old man body, and gets much more public acclaim as a leading actor in major movies than Cole (unfairly imo). Cole can act just as well.

Anyway, here's Cole looking svelte as a supporting character in the indie movie Hot Air for ya, op.

He was on Desperate Housewives. He was on the recent CBS sitcom Fam.

He was superb on Different Strokes. So deep into the character that he was unrecognizable.

Gary Cole did full frontal nudity a few years back. He has a very nice dick.

I think it’s in a movie called Bloclers where he does the full frontal.

I always thought this movie was about my grammar school nightmare — Fatal Division!

He was in Babylon 5 Crusade.

Thank you, R11. I'll cherish it.

R14 / R15 thank you for your service!

He was great in The West Wing.

I love his versions of "Mona Lisa" and "Unforgettable."

He has an autistic kid. He spoke at a conference I attended about the grieving process parents go through when they have a disabled child. I ran into him a few more times that day and he was always quiet and observant, but polite when people walked up and asked him questions.

I just found out that his wife filed for divorce in 2017 after 25 years of marriage, then mysteriously died in 2018. No information online about her cause of death at age 65. Cole remarried circa 2020.

Kind of odd, no?

I remember his show Midnight Caller got decent reviews, but never quite caught on with viewers. I wonder how it has aged.

Try this one more time.

Given the lack of information about his estranged wife's death I assumed it was a suicide and the family didn't want it publicized because of their special-needs daughter. Cole's sister-in-law had an open exchange on IMDb about how to edit her sister's page to reflect her death. A verification process is involved and she didn't want the cause of death made public.

I’d eat his ass.

That makes sense, R25. Very sad. Thanks.

I really like his character on The Good Fight. The way he and Baranski’s character negotiate their political differences. Sadly this new role probably means he won’t appear in the next season whenever that happens.

Good news r28. Gary Cole said he will still be doing The Good Fight season 6 (2022). I bet the new season will take place right after s5 ended (with Diane quitting her firm and starting over). I prefer his TGF moustache look than his NCIS beard look anyway.

Very hot daddy who has stayed quite slim.

Gary took over for Mark Harmon on NCIS? Does this mean grumpy Mark is permanently off the series? Good, I can't stand him. Mark is such a one note actor.

Not that I watch NCIS, I watched it on and off years ago. Most of the characters I liked had left, so I stopped.

There's a TV movie from the 90s where a 40-something Cole grooms the oldest daughter from The Nanny. ICK subject matter, but he looked hot.

r4 I remember that, too. It's too bad they didn't have better writers, because that show had so much potential. Midnight Caller was an uneven cult show, but I liked him in it.

I'm glad he got the $$ franchise. I've never watched NCIS, but it sounds like an L&O type show. I hope he gets good storylines. I always felt he never got the best writing to show his talent. IIRC, he started in Chicago theatre.

I liked Midnight Caller a lot. Gary Cole was great in it.

Show was uneven. Some were amazingly good, others were tedious. But overall, a very good series.

Gary Cole...man.

Some people in this thread won't be satisfied until they see Gary Cole's hole.

Slim, charismatic and cynical on NCIS. Woof.

Gary Cole in 1990 could have played Dahmer.

More pics from his Dahmer then Office Space era. He got more handsome as he aged.

Weren’t there domestic abuse allegations?

No matter.

I forgive you…