The Sheltering Sky

In 1990 he directed The Sheltering Sky, an adaptation of Paul Bowles’s novel of the same name. Subsequent films included Stealing Beauty (1996), which centres on an American teenager’s visit to Italy, and The Dreamers (2003), an erotic thriller about an American student in Paris during the student protests…

Soon after, he appeared in The Sheltering Sky (1990) and Woody Allen’s Shadows and Fog (1991). In 1992 he starred as Lennie in a film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men alongside his old Steppenwolf castmate Sinise.