Randy Quaid

Randy Quaid

Birthday: 1950-10-01

Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA

Biography: Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, as well as his numerous supporting roles in films such as The Last Detail, Independence Day, Kingpin and Brokeback Mountain. He has won a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and a BAFTA Award.

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Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifel...

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Independence Day
Independence Day

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major...

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Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder

Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Ha...

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The Wraith
The Wraith

Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force d...

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Frankenstein
Frankenstein

In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect m...

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Quick Change
Quick Change

With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan ba...

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Carolina
Carolina

A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy....

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National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation

Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but t...

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Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure

Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific va...

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Frank McKlusky, C.I.
Frank McKlusky, C.I.

As a child, Frank McKlusky watched his daredevil father "Madman" McKlusky become comatose in an ill-...

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Goya's Ghosts
Goya's Ghosts

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

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Hard Rain
Hard Rain

An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside....

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Kingpin
Kingpin

After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into...

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Mail to the Chief
Mail to the Chief

A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online ...

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Bye Bye Love
Bye Bye Love

With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on...

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things ne...

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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Adventures of Pluto Nash

The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hotte...

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Vegas Vacation
Vegas Vacation

The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy ...

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Water War
Water War

The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the...

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Purgatory
Purgatory

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks,...

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What's Up, Doc?
What's Up, Doc?

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild ...

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Breakout
Breakout

A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner....

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The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duan...

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Category 6: Day of Destruction
Category 6: Day of Destruction

Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst...

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The Paper
The Paper

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long ho...

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Parents
Parents

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horr...

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No Man's Land
No Man's Land

A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The...

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Home on the Range
Home on the Range

When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determine...

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Dead Solid Perfect
Dead Solid Perfect

A second-string pro golfer desperate for his shot at success tours the country....

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Real Time
Real Time

Real Time is a comedic drama about a compulsive gambler given one hour to live by the man hired to k...

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Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach

An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the...

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Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Te...

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Moving
Moving

Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that mo...

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The Missouri Breaks
The Missouri Breaks

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, L...

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The Long Riders
The Long Riders

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of ...

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Category 7: The End of the World
Category 7: The End of the World

It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming...

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The Last Detail
The Last Detail

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good t...

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Once Upon a Halloween
Once Upon a Halloween

On the night before Halloween, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs plans to conquer ...

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P.U.N.K.S
P.U.N.K.S

Drew Utley, Miles Kitchen, Lanny Nygren and Jonny P. comprise a club called 'P.U.N.K.S.'. Their miss...

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Last Dance
Last Dance

Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a ...

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Milwaukee, Minnesota
Milwaukee, Minnesota

Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for ...

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Blade: House of Chthon
Blade: House of Chthon

The brutal hunt for the pure bloods continues as the ultimate vampire hunter, Blade, battles to defe...

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Caddyshack II
Caddyshack II

When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he r...

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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. B...

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The Siege at Ruby Ridge
The Siege at Ruby Ridge

A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of ...

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Freaked
Freaked

A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scienti...

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Back By Midnight
Back By Midnight

The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's disho...

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Major League II
Major League II

After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the W...

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The Choirboys
The Choirboys

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va...

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The Day the World Ended
The Day the World Ended

A school psychologist investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy believes he is ...

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Black Cadillac
Black Cadillac

Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant....

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Picture This
Picture This

A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he ...

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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bloodhounds of Broadway

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells...

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Fool for Love
Fool for Love

A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her ba...

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Texasville
Texasville

Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming q...

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Kart Racer
Kart Racer

Fourteen-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation ...

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Heartbeeps
Heartbeeps

Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together....

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Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day

Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assi...

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Bug Buster
Bug Buster

After the mayor uses a potentially dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, the lakeside...

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Treasure Island Kids: The Battle of Treasure Island
Treasure Island Kids: The Battle of Treasure Island

Part one of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer ca...

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Cold Dog Soup
Cold Dog Soup

A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his pa...

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The Slugger's Wife
The Slugger's Wife

Darryl Palmer is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer. After so...

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Three Warriors
Three Warriors

Young troublemaker Michael learns about his native American roots from his grandfather who lives at ...

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Out Cold
Out Cold

Sunny is married to the butcher, Ernie, and their marriage is about to end as both of them have affa...

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Next Door
Next Door

Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errup...

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The Thin Blue Lie
The Thin Blue Lie

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its t...

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Moonshine Highway
Moonshine Highway

The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry w...

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Lolly-Madonna XXX
Lolly-Madonna XXX

In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a f...

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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning

In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic sla...

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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward sp...

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Martians Go Home
Martians Go Home

Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they ar...

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Foxes
Foxes

A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing...

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Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tra...

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Roommates
Roommates

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-w...

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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leadin...

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LBJ: The Early Years
LBJ: The Early Years

LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depic...

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Evil in Clear River
Evil in Clear River

Lindsay Wagner stars as Kate, a mother who learns that her son's teacher, Pete Suvak (Randy Quaid) -...

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The Ice Harvest
The Ice Harvest

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. Bu...

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The Great Niagara
The Great Niagara

An embittered old man is obsessed with conquering the Niagara River and Niagara Falls. He endangers ...

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Woman Undone
Woman Undone

When Terri Hansen (Mary McDonnell) emerges from a fiery car crash as a widow, the local sheriff at f...

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Cowboy
Cowboy

A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He find...

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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough m...

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Star Whackers
Star Whackers

Film actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi's detailed account of how Hollywood assassins have been out ...

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Paper Moon
Paper Moon

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be...

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Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up
Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up

Stanley goes with his family and friend's to his great uncle's dude ranch. The local land baron is t...

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The Christmas Letter
The Christmas Letter

Every year, unemployed copywriter Joe Michaels reads his wealthy friend's annual over-the-top Christ...

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Last Rites
Last Rites

A man is executed in the electric chair for having killed several women, but due to lightning striki...

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Not Another Teen Movie
Not Another Teen Movie

On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into...

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name fo...

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The Debtors
The Debtors

The Debtors is a comedy about a group of people with various addictions who meet up at the tables in...

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Sweet Country
Sweet Country

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 197...

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Grind
Grind

Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and b...

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The Wild Life
The Wild Life

Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his ...

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All You Can Eat
All You Can Eat

An overweight man makes a shift in habits after being turned down by his crush who fears that he cou...

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Midnight Express
Midnight Express

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...

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To Race the Wind
To Race the Wind

A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School stude...

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The Making of 'Independence Day'
The Making of 'Independence Day'

We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jef...

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Get on the Bus
Get on the Bus

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in...

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Getting Away from It All
Getting Away from It All

Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rur...

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Les Légendes du Grand Nord
Les Légendes du Grand Nord

A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territo...

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The Randy & Evi Quaid Compilation
The Randy & Evi Quaid Compilation

In 2010, in Vancouver, American actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, drew national media attention w...

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Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found

Following the departure of the show's original cast and creator after five seasons, SNL in the '80s ...

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