D'entre a suya filmografía, se pueden destacar as suyas interpretacions en cintas como One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Miloš Forman), Terms of Endearment (1983, James L. Brooks), Romancing the Stone (1984, Robert Zemeckis), Throw Momma from the Train (1987, Danny DeVito), The War of the Roses (1989, Danny DeVito), Batman Returns (1991, Tim Burton), Matilda (1996, Danny DeVito), The Rainmaker (1997, Francis Ford Coppola) u Man on the Moon'' (1999, Miloš Forman).