 In 1999, he played the villainous Uriah Heep opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Dame Maggie Smith in "David Copperfield".In 2006, he appeared as Cruella de Vil's chauffeur, Reg Farnsworth, at the Children's Party at the Palace.In 2007, Lyndhurst returned to the BBC with his first new sitcom in fourteen years, "After You've Gone", in which he plays a divorced dad moving back into the marital home to look after his daughter (Dani Harmer) and son (Ryan Sampson) together with his mother-in-law, played by Celia Imrie, after his ex-wife goes to work as a recovery nurse on a third world disaster relief mission.