As an actor, he made his film debut in the 1981 horror movie Friday the 13th Part 2. This was followed in 1985 with what may be his best known role as Harold "Reptile" Sherpico in the comedy Just One of the Guys, co-starring Katy Boyer, Leigh J. McCloskey, Clayton Rohner, and Kenneth Tigar. The following year, he and Clayton Rohner also appeared in Modern Girls, starring Virginia Madsen, Cameron Thor, and Mark Holton. His other film credits include Young Doctors in Love (1982, with Ed Begley, Jr., Hamilton Camp, Deborah Lacey, Michael McKean, and Saul Rubinek), John Carpenter's Christine (1983, with Bruce French), Hard to Hold (1984, with Gregory Itzin), Once Bitten (1985), and Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992, with Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige, Frank Novak, and Ron Perlman).