Complex sentence: Non-comedic roles after Airplane! included "Prom Night" (1980) and "Creepshow" (1982), both horror films, and as a dramatic and unsympathetic character in the 1986 comedy "Soul Man".
Split into simpler sentences: Non-comedic roles after Airplane! included "Prom Night" (1980) and "Creepshow" (1982), both horror films. In 1986, Nielsen played against recent type as a dramatic and unsympathetic character in the comedy "Soul Man".