37 Facts About Randy Quaid

Randy Quaid was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role in The Last Detail in 1973.

Randy Quaid received Emmy nominations for his roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and Elvis.

Randy Quaid is known for his roles of Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies and Russell Casse in Independence Day.

Randy Quaid voiced Alameda Slim in the animated feature Home on the Range.

Randy Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, to Juanita Bonniedale "Nita", a real estate agent, and William Rudy Randy Quaid, an electrician.

Randy Quaid grew up in Bellaire, Texas, a small city surrounded by Houston, and in southwest Houston.

Randy Quaid is the older brother of actor Dennis Quaid.

Randy Quaid continued studying acting at the University of Houston.

Peter Bogdanovich discovered him when Randy Quaid was a student at the University of Houston, and he received his first exposure in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show.

Randy Quaid played Larry Meadows, a young United States Navy sailor on his way to serve a harsh sentence for petty theft.

In 1978 Randy Quaid had a supporting role in the Alan Parker drama Midnight Express, about Americans and an Englishman imprisoned in Turkey.

Randy Quaid appeared opposite Charles Bronson in the 1975 action film of a Mexican prison escape Breakout, based on actual events.

Randy Quaid was the lead in the comedy Martians Go Home and Cold Dog Soup and played the King of Spain in Goya's Ghosts.

Randy Quaid said that he had wanted to play Johnson since becoming an actor.

Randy Quaid tried to portray what he learned were Johnson's political attitude:.

Randy Quaid was on the side of the people; he did a lot for racial equality; he had the ability to look at both sides of an issue and bring two opposing sides together; he was a man of great heart and compassion.

Randy Quaid thought he could handle the Viet Cong the way he handled people in Texas.

Randy Quaid previously starred in Quick Change with Bill Murray in 1990.

Randy Quaid appeared in four of the seven films in the National Lampoon's Vacation film series as Cousin Eddie, jovial redneck relative to Beverly D'Angelo, wife of Chevy Chase's Clark Griswold.

Shortly after appearing in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, the third installment of the series, Randy Quaid was featured in Days of Thunder as NASCAR car owner and successful car salesman Tim Daland, a determined businessman who expects his team to be top-notch for fans and sponsors.

Randy Quaid was 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, which marks his final appearance in the franchise to date.

Randy Quaid had a pivotal supporting role in Brokeback Mountain as rancher Joe Aguirre.

Randy Quaid had a co-starring role in the Canadian independent comedy Real Time, which opened the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival.

Randy Quaid's acclaimed performance earned him a Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award.

Randy Quaid was not asked to reprise the role of Cousin Eddie in Vacation, although the character is verbally referenced.

Randy Quaid returned to performing with Rob Margolies' weight loss comedy All You Can Eat, which premiered at the SOHO International Film Festival in June 2018.

In 1981, Randy Quaid co-starred in the two part television film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, playing the character of Lenny.

Randy Quaid voiced the character Colonel Sanders in radio and television commercials for fast-food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Randy Quaid narrated the 2006 PBS series Texas Ranch House.

In 2004, Randy Quaid appeared on stage undertaking the starring role of Frank in the world premiere of Sam Shepard's The God of Hell, produced by the New School University at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York.

The charges that brought the sanctions originated in a Seattle production of Lone Star Love, a Western-themed adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which Randy Quaid played the lead role of Falstaff.

Randy Quaid was married to Ella Marie Jolly, a former model, on May 11,1980, and they had a daughter, Amanda Marie, born May 29,1983.

Randy Quaid met Evi Motolanez in December 1987 on the set of the film Bloodhounds of Broadway, in which Madonna starred.

Three weeks after the election, Trump, on his Twitter account, thanked Randy Quaid for agreeing with his claim.

In 2006, Randy Quaid, who acted in Brokeback Mountain, sued the producers for misrepresenting the film as "a low-budget, art house film with no prospect of making money" in order to secure Randy Quaid's professional acting services at below-market rates.

Border authorities arrested the couple for their outstanding warrants in the US After they were granted bail, Randy Quaid gave a press interview, and later, the couple's asylum-seeking story was detailed in an article by Vanity Fair.

Randy Quaid lived in Montreal beginning in 2013 and was briefly arrested for not checking in as a non-resident.