Two of his more memorable film roles came in the comedies "Fletch" (1985), in which he played Chevy Chase's character's doubting editor, a role he repeated in the 1989 sequel "Fletch Lives", and "The In-Laws" (1979), in which he played General Garcia, an insane Latin-American dictator whose closest advisor was a cartoon face drawn on his own hand a la Señor Wences. He portrayed Nosh, an electronics expert who is the childhood best friend of Burt Reynolds's character, in "Sharky's Machine" (1981).