Actor

Gary Cole

135 credited titles on WatchWise

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.

Associated lifetime gross

$51M

Combined reported budget

$18M

Gross / budget

2.8x

Bankability Index

32 / 100

Associated performance by genre

Worldwide gross by tagged contribution — US$.

Comedy

$41M · 1 film · 100% hit

Drama

$6.0M · 4 films · 0% hit

Thriller

$4.1M · 2 films · 100% hit

Bankability assessment

32/100Developing verified track record

Films measured × gross-vs-budget efficiency, weighted by billing prominence — lead roles and directing count fully, minor roles fractionally. Association, not attribution — not a claim that this individual caused the revenue.