His first major breakthrough role which won the 66-year-old several Primetime Creative Emmy Awards was the 1988 drama Midnight Caller. Cole starred as the lead character Jack

"Nighthawk" Killian for three years in a total of 61 episodes. When the show ended in 1991, the NCIS actor went on to feature in American Gothic as Sheriff Lucas Buck. Among his

biggest successes, however, came in 1999 in the form of the dark black comedy Office Space which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He starred opposite the likes of Mike Judge, Ron 

Livingston, Stephen Root and Jennifer Aniston.