Schallert continued to work steadily as an actor in later life, appearing in a 2007 episode of "How I Met Your Mother", the HBO television film "Recount" (2008) as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, and the HBO series "True Blood" and his distinctive voice brought him work for commercial and animation voiceovers. Appearances in 2009 included a guest role on "Desperate Housewives" on March 15, in which he played the role of a small newspaper editor; he also appeared in an episode of "According to Jim". More recently, he appeared in the January 21, 2010, pilot episode of "The Deep End" on ABC as a retiring CEO with Alzheimer's disease. He also made an appearance on "Medium" on the February 5, 2010, episode and a cameo on the June 26, 2011, season premiere of "True Blood" as the mayor of Bon Temps. He played Max Devore in the A&E adaptation of "Bag of Bones".