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Graham had a lifelong dream to become a character actor, professing a great admiration for Edward G. Robinson.

He appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, as a promoter.

In 1990, director Barry Levinson and actor Warren Beatty provided an opportunity for Graham to take a more substantive role by casting him as Charles " Lucky " Luciano in the film Bugsy.

During one scene, Graham is shown in a Latin dance number, a style of dancing Graham had embraced as a teenager in New York.

He also appears as a promoter in the 1991 Oliver Stone film, The Doors.

He also had a small part in Coppola's 1987 Gardens of Stone playing the part of Don Brubaker as a hippie war protester at a garden party during the Vietnam War who gets into an argument with James Caan's character and is beaten up.