About
| Birth Name: | Randall Rudy Quaid |
| Birth Notes: | 1 October 1950, Houston, Texas, USA |
| Height: | 6' 4 1/2" |
| Family: | * Evi Quaid (5 October 1989 - present); 2 children * 'Ella Jolly' (11 May 1980 - 20 June 1985) (divorced); 1 child |
| Biography: | Hollywood's most extreme character star.... Randy Quaid has never been timelier. Randy, a man who took a bus to Hollywood with nothing but raw talent, is now a proven and current vast and varied star with that one other sustaining asset - he is a great and much admired actor on the world's stage and television and feature film screens and an actor that has been recognized by Hollywood and the worlds finest directors. Randy, who earned a Golden Globe portraying Lyndon Johnson , received a nomination in this years race for incarnating another memorable real life character, "Colonel" Tom Parker. The portrait of Colonel Parker, a former carnival barker with a murky past, is dark. The New York Times said "Mr. Quaid is riveting as the bully of Graceland", when he has Elvis firmly under his thumb, he is the L.B.J. of rock 'n' roll - a towering, wheedling, tirelessly self-promoting Southern fox in the rare instances when Elvis defies him, Colonel Parker shrinks into a hand-wringing phony, cajoling his only client in the overly ornate language of Professor Marvel in "The Wizard of Oz". Quaid stars in and Was nominated for a SAG award for his work in Brokeback Mountain (2005), directed by Ang Lee from a script written by Larry McMurtry, who also wrote The Last Picture Show (1971) in which Randy had his first feature film role. Working with McMurtry and supporting his material has become a Randy Quaid career tradition. Quaid's performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005) was listed as one of the New York Observer's 2005 Noteworthy male performances. Randy's upcoming roles on the big screen continue his bold appetite for challenges. He most recently finished filming Goya's Ghosts (2006) for director Milos Forman. Forman cast Randy as "King Carlos IV of Spain" after seeing his Golden globe nominated performance as The Colonel. In Last Flag Flying (2010), to be directed by Richard Linklater, he will reprise his Academy award nominated performance in the sequel to The Last Detail (1973). |
Filmography
| Carolina (2003) as Theodore 'Ted' Mirabeau |
| Christmas Vacation (1989) as Cousin Eddie Johnson |
| Foxes (1980) as Jay |
| Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002) as Madman McKlusky |
| Freaked (1993) as Elijah C. Skuggs |
| Goya's Ghosts (2006) as King Carlos IV |
| Grind (2003) as Jock Jensen |
| Hard Rain (1998) as Sheriff |
| Home on the Range (2004) as Alameda Slim |
| Independence Day (1996) as Russell Casse |
| Kingpin (1996) as Ishmael |
| Last Dance (1996) as Sam Burns |
| Not Another Teen Movie (2001) as Mr. Briggs |
| P.U.N.K.S. (1999) as Pat Utley |
| Paper Moon (1973) as Leroy |
| Parents (1989) as Nick Laemle |
| Quick Change (1990) as Loomis |
| Real Time (2008) as Reuban |
| Targets (1968) as Drive-In Patron |
| The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) as Bruno |
| The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) as Cappy von Trapment |
| The Choirboys (1977) as Dean Proust |
| The Ice Harvest (2005) as Bill Guerrard |
| The Last Detail (1973) as Meadows |
| The Last Picture Show (1971) as Lester Marlow |
| The Long Riders (1980) as Clell Miller |
| The Paper (1994) as Michael McDougal |
| Vacation (1983) as Cousin Eddie |
| Vegas Vacation (1997) as Cousin Eddie |
| Back by Midnight (2002) as Eli Rockwood |
| Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009) as Coach Lew Tuttle |
| Black Cadillac (2003) as Charlie |
| Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) as Feet Samuels |
| Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006) as Lester Marlow |
| Bound for Glory (1976) as Luther Johnson - Migrant Worker |
| Breakout (1975) as Hawk Hawkins |
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) as Joe Aguirre |
| Bug Buster (1998) as General George S. Merlin |
| Bye Bye Love (1995) as Vic Damico |
| Caddyshack II (1988) as Peter Blunt |
| Cold Dog Soup (1990) as Jack Cloud |
| Curse of the Starving Class (1994) as Taylor |
| Days of Thunder (1990) as Tim Daland |
| Fool for Love (1985) as Martin |
| George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (2000) as Himself/Narrator |
| Get on the Bus (1996) as Tennessee State Trooper |
| Heartbeeps (1981) as Charlie |
| Kart Racer (2003) as Vic Davies |
| Last Flag Flying (2010) as Larry Meadows |
| Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) as Finch Feather |
| Major League II (1994) as Johnny |
| Martians Go Home (1989) as Mark Devereaux |
| Midnight Express (1978) as Jimmy Booth |
| Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003) as Jerry James |
| Moving (1988) as Frank/Cornall Crawford |
| No Man's Land (1987) as Lieutenant Vincent Bracey |
| Out Cold (1989) as Lester |
| Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991) as Himself |
| Sweet Country (1987) as Juan |
| Texasville (1990) as Lester Marlow |
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) as Virgil |
| The Debtors (1999) |
| The Missouri Breaks (1976) as Little Tod |
| The Slugger's Wife (1985) as Moose Granger |
| The Wild Life (1984) as Charlie |
| The Wraith (1986) as Sheriff Loomis |
| Three Warriors (1977) as Ranger Quentin Hammond |
| Treasure Island Kids: The Battle of Treasure Island (2004) as Captain Flint |
| What's Up, Doc? (1972) as Professor Hosquith |
Trivia
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* Older brother of Dennis Quaid. * Arrived in Hollywood, worked on Hollywood Boulevard as a janitor and within one year was nominated for an Oscar for The Last Detail (1973). * Sings in the animated movie Home on the Range (2004). * Was directed by wife Evi Quaid in The Debtors (1999). * Played the character of Doc Holliday in the movie Purgatory (1999) (TV). His brother, Dennis Quaid, played the same character in the movie Wyatt Earp (1994). * Along with his brother Dennis Quaid, he attended Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas. Other celebrities attending the school at the same time included Brent Spiner ("Data" from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), although he used his adopted name, Brent Mintz) and Cindy Pickett from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Another significant member of Bellaire High School was Coach Knoblauch, who is the father of Chuck Knoblauch, professional Major League baseball player who played for the Minnesota Twins from 1991-1997, the New York Yankees from 1998-2001, and the Kansas City Royals in 2002. * He ties with Chevy Chase and Kevin Nealon as the tallest cast member to date on "Saturday Night Live" (1975). * Playing the redneck sheep rancher boss of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the critical and box office hit Brokeback Mountain (2005), Randy filed a lawsuit against the film's distributor, Focus Films, and its producers seeking at least $10 million claiming he was fleeced into working cheaply by the filmmakers' assertion that the film was "a low-budget, art-house film, with no prospect of making any money." The movie won three Oscars, included best director for Ang Lee and topped $82 million at the domestic box office. He reportedly dropped the suit after his lawyers told him Focus agreed to pay him a bonus, which he claims would be split between him and other principal cast members. Focus denies any such settlement; however, the lawsuit has been dropped. * Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 7, 2003, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. At a Screen Actors Guild awards show, he revealed that the star was near the site of the Roosevelt Hotel, where the promising actor first arrived off a bus from Houston three decades before. * Daughter, Amanda Quaid (born May 29, 1983) with ex-wife, Ella Jolly, and 2 adopted children, one daughter, Charlotte Quaid, and one son, Kaki Quaid with his wife, Evi Quaid. * Third cousin of Gene Autry . * Met his wife, Evi Quaid, on the set of Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989). * Enjoys painting in his spare time. * In 1994, he lived in a home in Santa Monica, but when an earthquake destroyed it he flew to New York, checked into the Carlyle Hotel and stayed for close to a year before relocating back to Los Angeles. * (July 2008) Attended the 43rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic. * Was considered for the role of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975);. * Banned for life from Actors' Equity Association for behavior that caused Lone Star Love to close during its pre-Broadway run. All 26 cast members filed charges against Quaid with the governing union, resulting in his banishment and fines of more than $81,000. * Milos Forman cast Quaid as the "King of Spain" in Goya's Ghosts (2006) after seeing his work as Tom Parker in Elvis (2005) (TV) with Jonathan Rhys Meyers by phoning him and saying, "You are a great actor. You must be my King or I must repaint Goya". * Colored his hair red and rented a fake full length fur coat from Universal for the "Slam Dance" opening night for his film Real Time (2008), the second film to be featured at "Slam Dance" starring Randy Quaid. * A full 5 inches taller then his brother, Dennis Quaid. * Nominated for an Oscar at the age of 21 for his work with Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973). * Married his wife, Evi Quaid, twice, once in Monticeto California at the same place Jacqueline Kennedy was married and once in Hollywood, close to his favorite hotel and Walk of Fame star. * Cast in The Ice Harvest (2005) when Harold Ramis called him and asked him to do it, just as he did when he asked him to do the first "Vacation" film for him that he also directed. * Played two real-life, ceremonial "Colonel"s. Tom Parker and Harland Sanders. * An arrest warrant was issued for Randy and his wife, Evi Quaid, for failure to show up at a Santa Barbara, California court for an unpaid hotel bill [April 14, 2010]. * In a plea bargain, he was found not guilty of skipping out of a $10,000 hotel bill, while his wife, Evi Quaid, was sentenced to a misdemeanor [April 28, 2010]. * Brother-in-law of Kimberly Quaid. * Ex-brother-in-law of P.J. Soles and Meg Ryan. |
Quotes
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* When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping center, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence. * I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side they present to the world. Those are good characters. |
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