Rudolph started to work as script supervisor in the '80s with credits on the science fiction horror film The Next (1988), the thriller The Drifter (1988), the science fiction film Nightfall (1988, starring David Birney), the television drama Margaret Bourke-White (1989), the fantasy comedy Teen Witch (1989, with Dan Gauthier), the science fiction comedy The Return of Swamp Thing (1989, with Dick Durock), and the comedy Homer and Eddie (1989, starring Whoopi Goldberg). Further credits include the horror musical Rockula (1990), the action thriller Tripwire (1990), the comedy Side Out (1990), the television western El Diablo (1990), the action film Kabuto (1991), the horror film Sleepwalkers (1992, starring Alice Krige and Mädchen Amick), the television series MacGyver (1991-1992), the televi