He has made two television documentaries – The Maze and September Blackberries – and is featured in several films including The Last Waltz (dir. Martin Scorsese) where he reads from The Canterbury Tales; Beyond the Law (dir. Norman Mailer); and, most prominently, The Hired Hand (dir. Peter Fonda).
Cool Hand Luke | Tony Hand | hand grenade | Second Hand | Right- and left-hand traffic | Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers | The Hand of Fear | Slow Hand | Learned Hand | Hand in My Pocket | Hand Built by Robots | Augustus Noble Hand | Nugan Hand Bank | Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand | Michael Jon Hand | Kernan "Skip" Hand | Elizabeth Hand | Edward Hand | Bird-in-Hand | The Upper Hand | The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand | Take My Hand, Precious Lord | Second-Hand Smoke | Red Hand of Ulster | Kevin Hand | I Kiss Your Hand, Madame | Hand Springs | Hand net | Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society | Hand grenade |
By 1923, he was on staff as a photographer, a cartoonist and a writer at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he created his first comic strip, The Hired Hand, and a sports feature, The Panther Kitten.