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Randy Quaid is a Actor American born on 1 october 1950 at Houston (USA)

Randy Quaid

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Birth name Randy Randall Rudy Quaid
Nationality USA
Birth 1 october 1950 (73 years) at Houston (USA)

Randy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award and an Academy Award for his role in The Last Detail. Quaid also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years. Quaid is well known for his roles in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Brokeback Mountain, Independence Day and Kingpin.

Biography

Quaid was married to Ella Marie Jolly on May 11, 1980 and they had a daughter, Amanda Marie Quaid, born May 29, 1983. They were separated on September 9, 1986 and divorced August 24, 1989.

Quaid met Evi Quaid (née Motolanez) in December 1987 on the set of the film, Bloodhounds of Broadway, in which Madonna starred. They wed on October 5, 1989 at the San Ysidro Ranch, a Montecito, California resort. His brother Dennis, actress Meg Ryan, and Randy's six-year-old daughter Amanda were in attendance.

Quaid is also a trained general aviation pilot.

Best films

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
(Actor)
Days of Thunder (1990)
(Actor)
Home on the Range (2004)
(Actor)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
(Actor)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
(Actor)
The Paper (1994)
(Actor)

Usually with

Polly Platt
Polly Platt
(4 films)
Dean Devlin
Dean Devlin
(3 films)
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase
(4 films)
Tony Epper
Tony Epper
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Randy Quaid (83 films)

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Actor

Uncle Howard
Directed by Aaron Brookner
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Howard Brookner, Madonna, Aaron Brookner, Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver, Andy Warhol
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating69% 3.4708453.4708453.4708453.4708453.470845
Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William S. Burroughs' bunker until his nephew Aaron Brookner unearths his story and the memory of everything he was.
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
Directed by Danny Leiner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Tennis films
Actors Randy Quaid, Seann William Scott, Leonor Varela, Brando Eaton, A. D. Miles, Emilee Wallace
Roles Coach Lew Tuttle
Rating53% 2.698792.698792.698792.698792.69879
À la suite de la mort de l'entraîneur de tennis d'un collège, Gary Housman le nouveau concierge de l'école prend la relève pour entraîner une équipe pour le championnat de Nebraska.
Real Time
Real Time (2008)
, 1h15
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Randy Quaid, Jay Baruchel, Jayne Eastwood
Roles Reuben
Rating65% 3.298063.298063.298063.298063.29806
The film is about a hit man (Randy Quaid) who gives a compulsive gambler (Jay Baruchel) one hour to live. The movie takes place in real time and its ultimate subject is what we do with the time we have in this world. The film begins when Andy, a hyperactive compulsive gambler, is plucked off the street by the calm yet imposing hit man, Reuban. Reuban tells Andy that he has been dispatched to kill him. Andy does not believe him at first. He figures it is just another one of Reuban’s scare tactics to get him to pay off his gambling debt.
Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up, 1h11
Origin USA
Genres Animation, Western
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Children's films
Actors Jessica D. Stone, Charles Shaughnessy, Ari Meyers, Hynden Walch, Shawn Pyfrom, John Ritter
Roles Rockin' Rory (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.2554353.2554353.2554353.2554353.255435
Stanley goes with his family and friend's to his great uncle's dude ranch. The local land baron is trying to buy the ranch and make it a parking lot for his nearby amusement park. The only way Uncle Stew thinks he can get any money to save his ranch is to find other dinosaur bones to attract customers. Stanley and his friends help in the search.
Goya's Ghosts, 1h54
Directed by Miloš Forman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Peinture, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, Unax Ugalde, Michael Lonsdale
Roles King Carlos IV
Rating68% 3.4478553.4478553.4478553.4478553.447855
In 1792, Spain reels amid the turmoil and upheaval of the French Revolution. Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is a renowned painter, who, among others, does portraits for the royal family as the Official Court Painter to the King and Queen.
Brokeback Mountain, 2h14
Directed by Ang Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini
Roles Joe Aguirre
Rating77% 3.8508153.8508153.8508153.8508153.850815
In 1963, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) are hired by Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) to herd his sheep through the summer in the Wyoming mountains. After a night of heavy drinking, Jack makes a sexual pass at Ennis, who is initially reluctant but eventually responds to Jack's advances. Though he informs Jack that it was a one-time incident, they develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Shortly after learning their summer together is being cut short, they briefly fight and each is bloodied.
Elvis (miniseries), 2h53
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Rose McGowan, Randy Quaid, Tim Guinee, Camryn Manheim, Robert Patrick
Roles 'Colonel' Tom Parker
Rating70% 3.5461353.5461353.5461353.5461353.546135
Naissance d'un véritable mythe de la musique: Elvis Presley. Vous saurez tout sur son histoire tumulteuse, de ses débuts modestes à son ascencion fulgurante. Cette biographie, rythmée par de véritables enregistrements de ses plus grands classiques, nous plonge dans les coulisses de la vie du King, de son règne absolu jusqu'aux prémices de sa mort prématurée dans un tourbillon de drogues et de gloire.
Back By Midnight, 1h29
Genres Comedy
Actors Rodney Dangerfield, Phil LaMarr, Harland Williams, Randy Quaid, Paul Rodriguez, Ed Begley Jr.
Roles Eli Rockwood
Rating47% 2.3662152.3662152.3662152.3662152.366215
Dangerfield plays Jake Puloski, a comedic and friendly prison warden who runs a privately owned prison for white-collar criminals and less serious offenders. The trouble starts when Puloski's plans for renovating his rundown prison are ruined by his superior, Eli Rockwood (Randy Quaid), a greedy businessman who inherited the prison from his deceased parents, who rejects his budget request. Rockwood also informs Puloski that his contract as prison warden will not be renewed, which means that Puloski will be forced to retire in two months. This comes at the same time that Rockwood is in the midst of selling his company to the very wealthy Gloria Beaumont (Kirstie Alley). Without the funds for a proper remodeling, Puloski decides to approach the problem by allowing a group of prisoners, Mile-Away (Phil LaMarr), Next-Week (Paul Rodriguez), Jerk-Off (Marty Belafsky), and Ears (Joe Nipote), to leave the prison to burgle a sporting goods store owned by Rockwood (on the condition that they are "back by midnight" before the guard Smitty (Tony Cox) makes his rounds).
The Ice Harvest, 1h28
Directed by Harold Ramis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Christmas films
Actors John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid, Oliver Platt, Mike Starr
Roles Bill Guerrard
Rating61% 3.098543.098543.098543.098543.09854
At mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas, mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and crooked businessman and pornographer Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) steal over $2 million from their mob boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). While it appears there will be an easy getaway for the pair, they learn the roads out of town are too icy to drive on. Vic takes the cash for safe-keeping and they split up and try their best to evade being captured by Guerrard and his men, who have discovered their scheme.
Category 7: The End of the World, 4h
Directed by Dick Lowry
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Politique, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films, White House in fiction
Actors Randy Quaid, Cameron Daddo, Gina Gershon, Shannen Doherty, Tom Skerritt, Swoosie Kurtz
Roles Tornado Tommy
Rating51% 2.586182.586182.586182.586182.58618
Following the events in Category 6: Day of Destruction, the superstorm that hit Chicago is continuing to grow in size and strength, with tornadoes hitting Paris and destroying the Eiffel Tower. Judith Carr (Gina Gershon), the new head of FEMA struggles to coordinate efforts to prepare for the aftermath of the storm and provide aid to ravaged areas. She calls in her former college lover, Dr. Ross Duffy (Cameron Daddo), and her father Senator Ryan Carr (Robert Wagner) to help her try to determine what is causing the storms and how to deal with the political issues. Tommy Tornado (Randy Quaid), who survived his seeming death in the previous film, returns to aid in tracking the storm in the United States, assisted by scientist Faith Clavell (Shannen Doherty). Similar storms are developing around the country and an interaction between urban heat islands and "falling chunks of mesosphere" fuels the storms making them more powerful. Hurricane Eduardo strikes toward Florida while the Category 6 storm hits Buffalo and heads towards New York City.
Once Upon a Halloween, 53minutes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Jeremy Irons, Susanne Blakeslee, Eartha Kitt, Pat Carroll, Corey Burton, Susan Sheridan
Roles Alameda Slim
Rating52% 2.6331652.6331652.6331652.6331652.633165
On the night before Halloween, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs plans to conquer Halloween, and asks her cauldron to show you several villains, to which one of them helps her in her plan, such as Peg Leg Pete from Mickey & Co.,Heffalumps and Woozles from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Ursula from The Little Mermaid, Captain Hook from Peter Pan, Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove, Professor Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective, Alameda Slim from Home on the Range, Scar and the Hyenas from The Lion King, Kaa and Shere Khan from The Jungle Book, and Judge Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The cauldron also explains its origins and The Horned King, both from The Black Cauldron. At the end however, the cauldron makes the evil queen disappear, foiling her plan to take over Halloween.
Home on the Range, 1h16
Directed by Will Finn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Animation, Western
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about cows, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding Jr., Randy Quaid, Jennifer Tilly, Steve Buscemi
Roles Alameda Slim (voice)
Rating54% 2.7228252.7228252.7228252.7228252.722825
Maggie is the only cow left on the Dixon Ranch after Alameda Slim (a cattle rustler capable of stealing 500 in a single night) stole all the rest of Mr. Dixon's cattle. Dixon sells Maggie to Pearl, a kind and elderly woman who runs a small farm called Patch of Heaven. The local Sheriff arrives to tell Pearl that her bank is cracking down on debtors. Pearl has three days to pay the bank $750, or her farm will be sold to the highest bidder. Hearing this, Maggie convinces the other cows on the farm (Grace, a happy-go-lucky character, and Mrs. Caloway, who has had leadership gone to her head) to go to town to attempt winning prize money at a fair. While the cows are in town, a bounty hunter named Rico (who Buck, the Sheriff's horse, idolizes) drops a criminal off and collects the reward. Stating he needs a replacement horse to go after Alameda Slim while his own horse rests, he takes Buck. When Maggie find out that the reward for capturing Slim is of exactly $750, she convinces the other cows to try to capture him to save Patch of Heaven.
Category 6: Day of Destruction, 2h54
Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Nancy McKeon, Thomas Gibson, Chandra West, Randy Quaid, Dianne Wiest, Brian Dennehy
Roles Tornado Tommy
Rating52% 2.614612.614612.614612.614612.61461
Andy Goodman (Brian Dennehy) is a week away from a forced retirement from his position as chief meteorologist at the National Weather Administration's Severe Weather Center. However, tornadoes level Las Vegas, an area normally not prone to the storms. Concerned and upset that the storm system formed unnoticed and that they were unable to warn the people, Goodman begins closely tracking the system. Goodman receives field reports from his friend "Tornado Tommy" (Randy Quaid) and assistance from new intern Sabrina Rogers (Alicia Johnston). As time passes, he realizes the system is heading towards Chicago, joined by an unusual warm storm coming from the south, which is already causing a record-breaking heat wave in the city, and an abnormally early cold front from the Arctic.
Carolina
Carolina (2003)
, 1h36
Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Sue Boorem, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Coolidge
Roles Ted Mirabeau
Rating60% 3.046283.046283.046283.046283.04628
Désireuse de mener une « vie normale », la jeune Carolina (une vingtaine d’années) tente d’échapper à l’emprise de son excentrique famille, notamment à celle de son extravagante grand-mère Millicent…
Grind
Grind (2003)
, 1h45
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Skateboard
Actors Mike Vogel, Adam Brody, Vince Vieluf, Joey Kern, Jennifer Morrison, Bam Margera
Roles Jock Jensen
Rating59% 2.9505852.9505852.9505852.9505852.950585
While the rest of his high school graduating class is heading to the same old kind of college, skateboarder Eric Rivers and his best friends, Dustin, a goal-oriented workaholic, and misfit slacker Matt have one last summer roadtrip together to follow their dream of getting noticed by the professional skateboarding world—and getting paid to skate. When skating legend Jimmy Wilson's skate demo tour hits town, the boys figure that as soon as he sees their fierce tricks, he'll sign them up for his renowned skate team immediately, right? Unfortunately, the guys are intercepted by Jimmy's road manager and they can't get their foot in the door, much less their boards. But they do get some free advice: keep skating, stay true to yourself, and stay in the game—if you're good, you'll get noticed. Following their dream—and Jimmy's national tour—Eric, Dustin and Matt start their own skate team, reluctantly sponsored by Dustin and his college fund.