Parmi les films remarquables dans lesquels il a joué, on trouve, par ordre chronologique, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest, The Shining, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, Something' s Got / Ota Give, and The Departed.
Parmi ses autres films, citons Five Easy Pieces -LRB- / O1970 / O-RRB-, Carnal Knowledge -LRB- / O1971 / O-RRB-, Tommy -LRB- / O1975 / O-RRB-, One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest -LRB- / O1975 / O-RRB-, The Shining -LRB- / O1980 / O-RRB-, Terms of Endearment -LRB- / O1983 / O-RRB-, Batman -LRB- / O1989 / O-RRB-, Mars Attacks -LRB- / O1996 / O-RRB-, As Good as it Gets -LRB- / O1997 / O-RRB-, About Schmidt -LRB- / O2002 / O-RRB-, and Anger Management -LRB