An early role for Lew was as a guard in the John Cassavetes 1976 film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Lew had a role in the Frank Harris directed action film Killpoint, which starred Leo Fong, Richard Rowntree, Cameron Mitchell and Stack Pierce. In 2017, he acted in the Mark Steven Grove directed sci-fi film Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine, which also starred Casper Van Dien, Cynthia Rothrock, Sara Salazar, and Tyler Weaver Jr..