The 6'6" (198 cm), 340-pound (154 kg) wrestler was spotted in the New York Athletic Club by a casting director, which led to his role as the fearsome "Terror", leader of the Fordham Baldies, in the 1979 Philip Kaufman film The Wanderers.

He continued to juggle his careers in film and information technology while also singing frequently with the Amato Opera in New York, studying to become a Heldenbaritone, and teaching computer programming at Manhattan Community College.

He played Dynamo, a sadistic stalker who announces his presence by singing the Valkyries' War Cry from Wagner's Die Walküre and electrocutes his victims.

He was born into the Dutch noble family van Lidth de Jeude and held the predicate of untitled nobility Jonkheer (comparable to the archaic usage of the British Esquire and cognate to the German Junker).

[4] Van Lidth de Jeude died of heart failure on September 23, 1987, at age 34, a few months after finishing work on The Running Man and one day after his first wedding anniversary.