Randy Quaid

Randy Quaid

1950-10-01 Houston, Texas, USA 104 Credits

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Quaid, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contr...

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The Christmas Letter

The Christmas Letter

2024

as Postman

5.0
Acting

Every year, unemployed copywriter Joe Michaels reads his wealthy friend's annual over-the-top Christmas letter, and feels like a loser. But this year'...

All You Can Eat

All You Can Eat

2018

as Gordon

6.5
Acting

An overweight man makes a shift in habits after being turned down by his crush who fears that he could die of cardiac arrest the way her father did.

Uncle Howard

Uncle Howard

2017

as Self (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on his...

The Randy & Evi Quaid Compilation

2015

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

In 2010, in Vancouver, American actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, drew national media attention when they requested refugee status in Canada. Origi...

Star Whackers

Star Whackers

2011

as Randy Quaid

9.5
Acting

Film actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi's detailed account of how Hollywood assassins have been out to kill them for over a decade.

Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach

Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach

2009

as Coach Lew Tuttle

5.1
Acting

An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: ...

Real Time

Real Time

2008

as Reuben

6.5
Acting

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

Goya's Ghosts

Goya's Ghosts

2006

as King Carlos IV

6.6
Acting

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to h...

Blade: House of Chthon

Blade: House of Chthon

2006

as Melvin

5.7
Acting

The brutal hunt for the pure bloods continues as the ultimate vampire hunter, Blade, battles to defeat the House of Chthon, an ancient evil sect of va...

Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up

2006

as Rockin' Rory (voice)

3.2
Acting

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 f...

Treasure Island Kids: The Battle of Treasure Island

Treasure Island Kids: The Battle of Treasure Island

2006

as Captain Flint

6.2
Acting

Part one of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer camp by his parents. This is not any old summer camp...

The Ice Harvest

The Ice Harvest

2005

as Bill Guerrard

5.9
Acting

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have diff...

Category 7: The End of the World

Category 7: The End of the World

2005

as Tornado Tommy

6.1
Acting

It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend th...

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain

2005

as Joe Aguirre

7.8
Acting

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they ge...

Once Upon a Halloween

Once Upon a Halloween

2005

as Alameda Slim

6.2
Acting

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 sever...

Back By Midnight

Back By Midnight

2005

as Eli Rockwood

4.8
Acting

The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and pl...

Category 6: Day of Destruction

Category 6: Day of Destruction

2004

as Tornado Tommy

6.3
Acting

Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.

Home on the Range

Home on the Range

2004

as Alameda Slim (voice)

6.1
Acting

When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful c...

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure

2003

as Eddie Johnson

4.0
Acting

Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won't sue him after being bit...

Grind

Grind

2003

as Jock Jensen

5.9
Acting

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

Carolina

Carolina

2003

as Ted Mirabeau

5.8
Acting

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

Kart Racer

Kart Racer

2003

as Vic Davies

6.1
Acting

Fourteen-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation (IKF) champion. Watts's resolve to race in the upc...

Black Cadillac

Black Cadillac

2003

as Charlie

5.6
Acting

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

Milwaukee, Minnesota

Milwaukee, Minnesota

2003

as Jerry James

4.9
Acting

Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly k...

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

2002

as Bruno

4.4
Acting

The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in tro...

Frank McKlusky, C.I.

Frank McKlusky, C.I.

2002

as Madman McKlusky

4.2
Acting

As a child, Frank McKlusky watched his daredevil father "Madman" McKlusky become comatose in an ill-fated motorcycle stunt. Now as a risk-avoiding adu...

Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie

2001

as Mr. Briggs

5.8
Acting

On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrag...

The Day the World Ended

The Day the World Ended

2001

as Dr. Michael McCann

4.1
Acting

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

The Thin Blue Lie

The Thin Blue Lie

2000

as Phil Chadway

6.0
Acting

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick in...

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

2000

as Cappy von Trapment

4.2
Acting

Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into ...

Mail to the Chief

Mail to the Chief

2000

as President A. Thorton Osgood II

5.7
Acting

A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online friendship with someone bearing the screen name Av...

The Debtors

The Debtors

1999

3.5
Acting

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

Last Rites

Last Rites

1999

as Jeremy Dillon

5.8
Acting

A man is executed in the electric chair for having killed several women, but due to lightning striking a transformer at the moment of execution, he su...

Purgatory

Purgatory

1999

as Doc Woods / Doc Holliday

7.2
Acting

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and th...

P.U.N.K.S

P.U.N.K.S

1999

as Pat Utley

5.2
Acting

Drew Utley, Miles Kitchen, Lanny Nygren and Jonny P. comprise a club called 'P.U.N.K.S.'. Their mission is to protect and serve peace.

Water War

Water War

1998

as Lenny

Acting

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

Bug Buster

Bug Buster

1998

as General George S. Merlin

3.6
Acting

After the mayor uses a potentially dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, the lakeside town of Mountview, in California, is attacked by ...

Hard Rain

Hard Rain

1998

as Sheriff Mike Collins

5.8
Acting

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

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

1998

as Phil

3.8
Acting

Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was ab...

Gun

Gun

1997

as Bill Johnson

7.0
Acting

Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.

Vegas Vacation

Vegas Vacation

1997

as Cousin Eddie

6.0
Acting

The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

1996

as Tennessee State Trooper (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of character...

Kingpin

Kingpin

1996

as Ishmael Boorg

6.5
Acting

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

The Making of 'Independence Day'

The Making of 'Independence Day'

1996

as Self (archive footage)

5.9
Acting

We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a rip-...

Independence Day

Independence Day

1996

as Russell Casse

6.9
Acting

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it ...

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

1996

as Randy Weaver

5.1
Acting

A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day sieg...

Moonshine Highway

Moonshine Highway

1996

as Sheriff Miller

5.8
Acting

The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the dr...

Last Dance

Last Dance

1996

as Sam Burns

5.7
Acting

Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenc...

Woman Undone

Woman Undone

1996

as Allan Hansen

4.0
Acting

When Terri Hansen (Mary McDonnell) emerges from a fiery car crash as a widow, the local sheriff at first believes her account of the accident. But the...

Les Légendes du Grand Nord

Les Légendes du Grand Nord

1995

Acting

A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning

1995

as Detective Steve Carella

4.5
Acting

In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detecti...

Bye Bye Love

Bye Bye Love

1995

as Vic Damico

5.9
Acting

With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wi...

Curse of the Starving Class

Curse of the Starving Class

1994

as Taylor

4.1
Acting

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm fa...

Next Door

Next Door

1994

as Lenny Benedetti

4.4
Acting

Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and...

Roommates

Roommates

1994

as Jim Flynn

4.4
Acting

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become fri...

Major League II

Major League II

1994

as Johnny (ucredited)

5.7
Acting

After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! However, they first have to...

The Paper

The Paper

1994

as Michael McDougal

6.6
Acting

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, p...

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

1993

as The Monster

6.6
Acting

In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. ...

Freaked

Freaked

1993

as Elijah C. Skuggs

6.1
Acting

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

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

1991

as Self

9.0
Acting

A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he nearly had while shooting THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.

Texasville

Texasville

1990

as Lester Marlow

6.0
Acting

Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares ...

Cold Dog Soup

Cold Dog Soup

1990

as Jack Cloud

4.9
Acting

A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of the...

Quick Change

Quick Change

1990

as Loomis

6.7
Acting

With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation...

Days of Thunder

Days of Thunder

1990

as Tim Dalander

6.4
Acting

Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hots...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

1989

as Cousin Eddie

7.2
Acting

It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and th...

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989

as Feet Samuels

5.6
Acting

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hort...

Martians Go Home

Martians Go Home

1989

as Mark Devereaux

4.0
Acting

Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pai...

Out Cold

Out Cold

1989

as Lester

5.9
Acting

Sunny is married to the butcher, Ernie, and their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs. Thus Sunny hires Lester Atlas as private inve...

Parents

Parents

1989

as Nick Laemle

5.9
Acting

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his p...

Dead Solid Perfect

Dead Solid Perfect

1988

as Kenny Lee

6.6
Acting

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

Caddyshack II

Caddyshack II

1988

as Peter Blunt

4.1
Acting

When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a...

Moving

Moving

1988

as Frank / Cornall Crawford

5.6
Acting

Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.

Evil in Clear River

Evil in Clear River

1988

as Pete Suvak

4.0
Acting

Lindsay Wagner stars as Kate, a mother who learns that her son's teacher, Pete Suvak (Randy Quaid) -- who's also the mayor of their small town -- has ...

No Man's Land

No Man's Land

1987

as Lieutenant Vincent Bracey

6.0
Acting

A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy t...

LBJ: The Early Years

LBJ: The Early Years

1987

as Lyndon Baines Johnson

7.5
Acting

LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United St...

Sweet Country

Sweet Country

1987

as Juan

4.8
Acting

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.

The Wraith

The Wraith

1986

as Sheriff Loomis

6.4
Acting

Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicl...

Fool for Love

Fool for Love

1985

as Martin

5.8
Acting

A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind.

The Slugger's Wife

The Slugger's Wife

1985

as Moose Granger

3.4
Acting

Darryl Palmer is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer. After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an em...

The Wild Life

The Wild Life

1984

as Charlie

6.1
Acting

Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

1984

as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell

5.4
Acting

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unfo...

National Lampoon's Vacation

National Lampoon's Vacation

1983

as Cousin Eddie

7.1
Acting

Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

Cowboy

Cowboy

1983

as Evan Coleman

Acting

A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He finds couple of friends among the locals, but people r...

Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich

1982

as Putzi Hanfstaengel

7.2
Acting

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...

Heartbeeps

Heartbeeps

1981

as Charlie

4.0
Acting

Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

1981

as Lenny Small

7.1
Acting

George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always wat...

The Long Riders

The Long Riders

1980

as Clell Miller

6.7
Acting

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin the...

To Race the Wind

To Race the Wind

1980

as Chet Watson

8.5
Acting

A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School student trying to make his way in a sighted world.

Foxes

Foxes

1980

as Jay

5.9
Acting

A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

1979

as Grat Dalton

2.1
Acting

A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a ...

Midnight Express

Midnight Express

1978

as Jimmy Booth

7.5
Acting

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 y...

The Choirboys

The Choirboys

1977

as Dean Proust

5.3
Acting

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Three Warriors

1977

3.7
Acting

Young troublemaker Michael learns about his native American roots from his grandfather who lives at a reservation. The boy starts to bond with a horse...

Bound for Glory

Bound for Glory

1976

as Luther Johnson

6.9
Acting

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering th...

The Missouri Breaks

The Missouri Breaks

1976

as Tittle Tod

6.5
Acting

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a sm...

Breakout

Breakout

1975

as Hawk Hawkins

6.3
Acting

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

The Great Niagara

The Great Niagara

1974

as Carl Grant

6.0
Acting

An embittered old man is obsessed with conquering the Niagara River and Niagara Falls. He endangers his sons' lives by forcing them to challenge the f...

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1974

as Virgil

5.9
Acting

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his sho...

The Last Detail

The Last Detail

1973

as Seaman Larry Meadows

7.0
Acting

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

Paper Moon

Paper Moon

1973

as Leroy

7.9
Acting

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partn...

Lolly-Madonna XXX

Lolly-Madonna XXX

1973

as Finch Feather

5.9
Acting

In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feath...

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?

1972

as Professor Hosquith

7.4
Acting

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

Getting Away from It All

Getting Away from It All

1972

as Herbie

Acting

Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would b...

The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show

1971

as Lester Marlow

7.6
Acting

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having ...