Internationally, he first came to prominence in fellow Dutchman Paul Verhoeven's films, "Soldier of Orange" opposite Rutger Hauer and "The Fourth Man" with Renée Soutendijk. His first big American film was the Whoopi Goldberg comedy, "Jumpin' Jack Flash". However, it was his roles as villains in a string of international films from the late 1980s and early 1990s which brought him international stardom, with notable roles such as Losado in "No Mercy" (1986), General Georgi Koskov in the James Bond film "The Living Daylights" (1987), Gianni Franco in "The Punisher" (1989), Herbert Woodruff (Lowenstein's husband) in "The Prince of Tides" (1991), and the criminal Dr. Charles Nichols in "The Fugitive" (1993). He appeared in numerous TV productions, and as Satan in the TV production "Jesus".