Hauser made his film debut in "School Ties" (1992), which starred many young and up-and-coming actors such as Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell and Ben Affleck. A role in Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused" also starring Affleck came along subsequently. In 1995, Hauser played the role of the leader of the campus neo-Nazi skinheads in the John Singleton film "Higher Learning". Hauser would later re-team with Affleck and Damon when they appeared together in "Good Will Hunting" (1997). In 2000 he played William J. Johns in "Pitch Black" and voiced the character in the prequel .