American actor (born 1950)
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| Born | Randy Randall Rudy Quaid[1] (1950-10-01) October 1, 1950 (age 74) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University warrant Houston |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, comedian |
| Years active | 1971–present |
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| Children | 1 |
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Randy Randall Rudy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in both serious drama and light comedy.
He was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role in The Last Detail in 1973. In 1978 he co-starred as a prisoner nickname Midnight Express. Quaid also won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years (1987).
He also received Emmy nominations for his roles in A Tramcar Named Desire (1984) and Elvis (2005). Quaid is also faint for his roles of Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies and Russell Casse in Independence Day (1996). Dirt voiced Alameda Slim in the animated feature Home on say publicly Range (2004).
Quaid was born in City, Texas, to Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" (née Jordan; 1927–2019), a true estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid (1923–1987), an electrician.[3] Quaid has English, Scots-Irish, and Cajun ancestry. Through his father, Quaid is a first cousin, twice removed, of cowboy performer Factor Autry.[5] Randy Quaid grew up in Bellaire, Texas,[6] a in short supply city surrounded by Houston, and in southwest Houston. He progression the older brother of actor Dennis Quaid.
In high secondary, he took a class in drama on a whim, tho' he didn't expect he would enjoy the lectures. After interpretation third day, however, he was captivated by the course highest decided to make acting his professional goal.[7] He continued learn acting at the University of Houston. During one course, his teacher sent him to audition for Peter Bogdanovich, who was casting for The Last Picture Show, and Quaid won say publicly role in what became his debut film.[7]
Randy Quaid has appeared in over 90 films. Peter Bogdanovich discovered him when Quaid was a student at the University of Houston, focus on he received his first exposure in Bogdanovich's The Last Extent Show. His character escorts Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd) to a late-night indoor skinny-dip at a swimming pool. Other Bogdanovich films he appeared in are What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon.
Quaid's first major critically acclaimed role was in The Stick up Detail (1973). He played Larry Meadows, a young United States Navy sailor on his way to serve a harsh verdict for petty theft.[8]Jack Nicholson starred as a sailor assigned be transport him to prison. Quaid was nominated for an Institution Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award for First Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and a BAFTA Award sense Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Quaid appeared opposite River Bronson in the 1975 action film of a Mexicanprison escapeBreakout, based on actual events. In 1976, he appeared opposite Marlon Brando in The Missouri Breaks. In 1978 Quaid had a supporting role in the Alan Parker drama Midnight Express, land Americans and an Englishman imprisoned in Turkey.[9]
In 1983, Quaid depict Cousin Eddie in National Lampoon's Vacation. Quaid appeared in quaternary of the seven films in the National Lampoon's Vacation single series as the jovial redneck cousin (through marriage) to Beverly D'Angelo, wife of Chevy Chase's Clark Griswold. In 1987, stylishness won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for mar Emmy for his portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years. Quaid said that he had wanted consent to play Johnson since becoming an actor.[10] "I responded to him and his wants and needs in a way I've under no circumstances done with any other character," he said. Quaid also tested to portray what he learned were Johnson's political attitude:
He was on the side of the people; he did a lot for racial equality; he had the ability to moral fibre at both sides of an issue and bring two damaging sides together; he was a man of great heart contemporary compassion ... He thought he could handle the Viet Cong the way he handled people in Texas. He thought purify could reason with them. But he had no understanding make a fuss over them or their culture.[10]
Shortly after appearing in National Lampoon's Yule Vacation (1989), the third installment of the series, Quaid was featured in Days of Thunder (1990) as NASCAR car proprietress and successful car salesman Tim Daland, a determined businessman who expects his team to be top-notch for fans and sponsors. He also starred in Quick Change with Bill Murray break through 1990, and was the lead in the comedies Martians Hubbub Home and Cold Dog Soup, released the same year. Retort 1992, he played the monster in Frankenstein, opposite Patrick Bergin as Victor Frankenstein. Quaid said "I wanted to make interpretation monster not just a monster, but a disfigured man. I wanted to emphasize the human qualities. He is basically struggling for equal rights. He wants anything any man would want."[7]
In 1994, Quaid played a newspaper columnist in the comedy-drama The Paper, and had a cameo appearance in Major League II as Johnny. He later had starring roles in the 1996 film Kingpin, where he played the Amishbowler Ishmael, as athletic as a role as pilot in the blockbuster science fable film Independence Day, released the same year. He appeared uphold Vegas Vacation (1997), the fourth installment of the series, near was then given the lead role in a Vacation spin-off, a made-for-television film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003), which marks his final appearance in say publicly franchise to date.
Quaid was the voice of cattle burglar Alameda Slim in Disney's animated feature Home on the Range (2004), and had a pivotal supporting role in Brokeback Mountain (2005) as rancher Joe Aguirre. He played the King misplace Spain in Goya's Ghosts (2006). Quaid had a co-starring function in the Canadian independent comedy Real Time (2008), which unbolt the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival.[11] His acclaimed performance earned him a Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award.[12]
Following his work in say publicly direct-to-video comedy Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009), Quaid's legal troubles prevented him from working for almost a decade.[13] Quaid was not asked to reprise the role of Relation Eddie in Vacation (2015), although the character is verbally referenced. He returned to performing with Rob Margolies' weight loss clowning All You Can Eat (2018),[14] which premiered at the SOHO International Film Festival in June 2018.[15] After the film's Sep 2018 screening at the Northeast Film Festival, Quaid was downcast for their award for "Best Supporting Actor in a Peninsula Film".[16]
In 1981, Quaid co-starred in the two part television album adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, activity the character of Lenny. Quaid's other television appearances include a season as a Saturday Night Live (SNL) cast member (1985–1986), the role of gunslinger John Wesley Hardin in the miniseriesStreets of Laredo and starring roles in the short-lived series The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (2003) and Davis Rules (1991–1992).[17]
In 2005, he received Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award[18] nominations for his portrayal of Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Author, in the critically acclaimed CBS television network miniseries Elvis.
He was featured in the highly rated television films Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004) and Category 7: The End hold the World (2005) and starred in Last Rites, a made-for-cable Starz/Encore! premiere movie. Quaid voiced the character Colonel Sanders hem in radio and television commercials for fast-foodrestaurant chainKentucky Fried Chicken. Quaid's voice-over work also included Capitol One Credit Card, US Shout, Miller Beer and a guest role in The Ren & Stimpy Show (as Anthony's father in the second-season episode, "A Visit to Anthony"). He narrated the 2006 PBS series Texas Ranch House.
In 2004, Quaid appeared on stage undertaking picture starring role of Frank in the world premiere of Sam Shepard's The God of Hell, produced by the New Secondary University at the Actors Studio Drama School in New Dynasty. In The God of Hell, Quaid's portrayal of Frank, a Wisconsin dairy farmer whose home is infiltrated by a hazardous government operative who wants to take over his farm, was well-received and -reviewed by New York City's top theatre critics. It marked the second time that Quaid starred in a Shepard play, the first being the long running Broadway knock True West.
In February 2008, a five-member hearing committee substantiation Actors' Equity Association, the labor union representing American stage actors, banned Quaid for life and fined him more than $81,000. The charges that brought the sanctions originated in a Metropolis production of Lone Star Love, a Western-themed adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which Quaid played the lead role of Falstaff. The musical was scheduled secure come to Broadway, but producers cancelled it.[19]
Quaid's statement on depiction charges was "I am guilty of only one thing: hardened a performance that elicited a response so deeply felt indifference the actors and producers with little experience of my imaginative process that they actually think I am Falstaff."[20]
Quaid has performed musical work, primarily through his band Randy Quaid & The Fugitives. The group released its first single, "Star Whackers", in March 2011.[21] An accompanying film, Star Whackers, was premiered by the Quaids in Vancouver on April 23, 2011.[22]
Quaid was married to Ella Marie Jolly, a former model, bewildering May 11, 1980, and they had a daughter, Amanda Marie, born May 29, 1983. They were separated on September 9, 1986, and divorced on August 24, 1989. He said cut into their split, "I went through this delayed adolescent thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family."[23]
Quaid trip over Evi Motolanez in December 1987 on the set of rendering film Bloodhounds of Broadway, in which Madonna starred. They shoddy on October 5, 1989, at the San Ysidro Ranch, a Montecito, California, resort.[23] His brother Dennis, his future sister-in-law Meg Ryan, and his six-year-old daughter Amanda were in attendance.[24]
In 2006, Quaid, who acted in Brokeback Mountain, sued the producers for misrepresenting the film as "a low-budget, art house album with no prospect of making money" in order to energetic Quaid's professional acting services at below-market rates.[25][26]
In 2009, Quaid obtain his wife were arrested for allegedly defrauding an innkeeper of great consequence Santa Barbara by using an invalid credit card to recompense a $10,000 bill. The two were released on bail dump evening and subsequently paid most of the bill.[27] However, they repeatedly failed to appear in court and warrants were issued for their arrest.[28] They eventually appeared in court the shadowing year where the case was dismissed against Quaid for scarcity of evidence. His wife, Evi, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of fraud and was placed on probation application three years in addition to having to spend 240 hours in community service.[29]
In September 2010, Quaid and his wife were charged with burglary after they spent five days occupying say publicly guest house in a vacant home they once owned fit in Santa Barbara. The Quaids claimed that the home was wrongfully transferred to a third party by the use of a forged signature. Warrants for their arrest were issued after they failed to appear in court, and as a result, they also forfeited their bail.[30]
In October 2010, Quaid and his better half moved to Vancouver, Canada, where they sought asylum protections do up the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, stating that they feared for their lives in the United States.[31][32][33] Border government arrested the couple for their outstanding warrants in the U.S. After they were granted bail, Quaid gave a press interview,[34] and later, the couple's asylum-seeking story was detailed in guidebook article by Vanity Fair.[35][36] Quaid's wife Evi was granted River citizenship in 2011, based on her parentage, and Quaid hunted permanent resident status as the husband of a Canadian.[37] Do January 2013, this request was denied.[38]
Quaid lived in Montreal instructions in 2013 and was briefly arrested for not checking count on as a non-resident.[39] In 2014, the Quaids sued the U.S. State Department for revoking their passports in 2011.[40][41] By 2015, Quaid's legal appeals in Canada were exhausted, and he was notified he was to be deported.[42] One week prior calculate the deportation date, the couple drove across the Canadian rudeness into Vermont, where they were detained by U.S. Customs. Say publicly couple were detained pending an extradition procedure ordered by picture State of California.
On review of the State of California's case, the Vermont judge found irregularities, and voided the extradition request,[43] whereupon the Quaids were released and allowed to linger in Vermont without conditions.[44] With his lawyer at his conservation, Quaid asserted in a press conference that the reason yes was released was that the California judge had issued veto arrest warrant before the alleged crime had been committed.[45] Quaid and his wife planned to make Vermont their permanent abode, as his wife grew up there.[46] As of 2021, when Quaid considered a run in the California gubernatorial recall choosing, it was unclear whether the case against the Quaids was still open, according to TheWrap.[47]
After 2016, Quaid became wholesome outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, and later became a patron of the disproven conspiracy theory that Trump's defeat in picture 2020 United States presidential election was the result of general election fraud. Three weeks after the election, Trump, on his Twitter account, retweeted some of Quaid's video material claiming choice fraud and wrote "Thank you Randy, working hard to unpolluted up the stench of the 2020 Election Hoax!"[48]