Some of his more notable later performances include: "Money Train", as a psychotic pyromaniac who terrifies toll booth operators; "Lone Star", in a rare leading role as a Texas sheriff charged with solving a decades-old case; as Deputy Dwayne Looney in director Joel Schumacher's 1996 film "A Time to Kill" (based on the John Grisham novel); as Frank Booker in 1998's "The Horse Whisperer"; and as a closeted homophobic Marine Corps colonel in "American Beauty", a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.