The following two decades saw Forwood take on more film roles. He was cast as the Photographer on Aquitania in Christopher Miles' 1981 biographical film Priest of Love, the Secretary in Richard Attenborough's 1982 period biographical film Gandhi, Duke in David S. Ward's 1991 comedy film King Ralph, Ian in Pradip Krishen's 1992 Indian film Electric Moon, and Denis Carradine in Sarah Pia Anderson's 1995 crime drama Prime Suspect: Inner Circles. Forwood's television roles, too, grew more numerous. He played Max in three episodes of ITV's Funny Man alongside Jimmy Jewel and David Schofield in 1981, Wyndham in one episode of the 1982 adaptation of Thomas Flanagan's eponymous novel The Year of the French, Professional Man in one episode of Roy Ward Baker's sitcom Fairly Secret Army starring Geoffrey Palmer in 1984, the Doctor in three episodes of Johnny Speight's BBC television sitcom In Sickness and in Health in 1987, Boris in one episode of Andrew Davies' adaptation of Domini Taylor's eponymous novel Mother Love, and the surgeon in one episode of Simon Langton's 1994 television mini-series adaptation of the eponymous 1978 novel The Cinder Path by Catherine Cookson.
