Buswell also worked as construction foreman/ construction gang boss on films such as the science fiction drama Starman (1984), the television series Wings, the crime drama Patriot Games (1992), the thriller Jennier Eight (1992), the thriller Sliver (1993), the science fiction comedy Coneheads (1993), the romance Love Affair (1994), the science fiction film Strange Days (1995), the romance The American President (1995), the fantasy comedy Matilda (1996), the action film The Glimmer Man (1996), the action film Face/Off (1997), the thriller Air Force One (1997), the science fiction film The Postman (1997), the action adventure Six Days Seven Nights (1998), the fantasy film The Thirteenth Floor (1999), and the action film Torque (2004).