In 1981, he had a role as the jail guard in a Paul Wendkos directed TV drama The Five of Me which starred David Birney, Dee Wallace, Mitch Ryan and James Whitmore.
[1][2] The following year, he had a part in the 1982 film I Ought to Be in Pictures which was written by Neil Simon and directed by Herbert Ross.
[3][4] He played the part of McKee, a criminal gang member in the Norbert Meisel directed 1983 revenge film Walking the Edge, which starred Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan.
The gang which had killed a woman's husband and son were led by Bruster played by Joe Spinnell.
[9][10] In 1988, he appeared in A Perfect Match, a romantic comedy about a man and woman pretending to be people they are not.