He scripted "Dress Grey" (1986) and the 1989 TNT miniseries "Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid" for TV, the latter adapted from his best-selling novel. Vidal has also tried acting, playing himself in Federico "Fellini's Roma" (1972), and more recently, appearing in "Bob Roberts" (1992) and "With Honors" (1994), playing sympathetic patrician characters--a politician and a professor respectively.