While working in various minor capacities behind the scenes, Lampert played bit parts in several 1980s movies, including The Twilight Zone: The Movie (as a mechanic in the remake of the classic "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"), St. Elmo's Fire, Mannequin, and A Fine Mess (with Ted Danson and Howie Mandel). TV appearances (again in small parts as customers, workers, or "Man #1" types) include Alice (with Linda Lavin), Moonlighting (with Bruce Willis), Matlock, Ellen, and the 1995 TV remakes of the Disney movies The Barefoot Executive, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and Escape to Witch Mountain.