In 1994, he collaborated twice with actor Christopher Lambert; they played the side by side leads in the action film "Gunmen", and he was the main villain in "", the third installment of the "Highlander" film series. He also acted in a film called "In the Living Years". He followed by directing and co-starring in "Panther" in 1995. It came from a screenplay adapted by his father, Melvin Van Peebles, from his novel of the same name. The film portrays the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, tracing the organization from its founding through its decline in a compressed timeframe. Creative license is taken but the general trajectory of the Party and its experiences is factual. At the Locarno International Film Festival it won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury, a Silver Leopard, and was nominated for a Golden Leopard. At the Political Film Society it was nominated for a PFS Award.