Robert Van Dyke's other credits include the 1997 science fiction films The Lost World: Jurassic Park (featuring Ian Abercrombie and Harvey Jason) and Starship Troopers (starring Clancy Brown and Dina Meyer), on which he was a property foreman and construction foreman, respectively. He was more recently credited as General Foreman on the 2000 films Cast Away and What Lies Beneath and as a construction foreman on the 2004 comedy Christmas with the Kranks.