He was more successful with his featured role as Richard Deane in "Dr. Fischer of Geneva" (1985); this was followed by "Howling III" (1987), a cameo as Rupert Murdoch in the miniseries "Selling Hitler" (1991) with Alexei Sayle, a three-role cameo in Philippe Mora's horror satire "Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills" (1995), the role of Count Metternich in "Immortal Beloved" (1994), as well as roles in "The Leading Man" (1996), the Spice Girls' film "Spice World", the Australian feature "Welcome to Woop Woop" (1997), and "Nicholas Nickleby" (2002), in which he donned female garb to play Nathan Lane's wife.