Randy Quaid's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) 5ive Days to Midnight Irwin Sikor… Davis Rules Dwight Davis Category 6: Day of Destruction Tornado Tommy Category 7: End Of The World Tornado Tom… Texas Ranch House Narrator The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. Chief Hank …

Main Movie Roles 2008 - Real Time 2006 - Goya's Ghosts 2005 - Brokeback Mountain 2005 - The Ice Harvest 2004 - Home on the Range 2003 - Grind 2003 - Milwaukee, Minnesota 2002 - The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002 - Frank McKlusky, C.I. 2001 - Not Another Teen Movie 2000 - The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 1998 - Hard Rain 1997 - Vegas Vacation 1996 - Independence Day 1996 - Kingpin 1995 - Bye Bye Love 1994 - Major League II 1994 - The Paper 1993 - Freaked 1990 - Days of Thunder 1990 - Quick Change 1989 - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989 - Parents 1988 - Moving 1988 - Caddyshack II 1987 - No Man's Land 1986 - The Wraith 1984 - The Wild Life 1983 - National Lampoon's Vacation 1980 - Foxes 1980 - The Long Riders 1978 - Midnight Express 1976 - The Missouri Breaks 1976 - Bound for Glory 1975 - Breakout 1973 - The Last Detail 1973 - Paper Moon 1972 - What's Up, Doc? 1971 - The Last Picture Show 1968 - Targets

BIOGRAPHY:

Hollywood's most extreme character star.... Randy Quaid has never been timelier. Randy, a man who took a bus to Hollywood with nothing but raw talent, is now a proven and current vast and varied star with that one other sustaining asset - he is a great and much admired actor on the world's stage and television and feature film screens and an actor that has been recognized by Hollywood and the worlds finest directors.

Randy, who earned a Golden Globe portraying Lyndon Johnson (I), received a nomination in this years race for incarnating another memorable real life character, "Colonel" Tom Parker. The portrait of Colonel Parker, a former carnival barker with a murky past, is dark. The New York Times said "Mr. Quaid is riveting as the bully of Graceland", when he has Elvis firmly under his thumb, he is the L.B.J. of rock 'n' roll - a towering, wheedling, tirelessly self-promoting Southern fox in the rare instances when Elvis defies him, Colonel Parker shrinks into a hand-wringing phony, cajoling his only client in the overly ornate language of Professor Marvel in "The Wizard of Oz".

Quaid stars in and Was nominated for a SAG award for his work in Brokeback Mountain (2005), directed by Ang Lee from a script written by Larry McMurtry, who also wrote The Last Picture Show (1971) in which Randy had his first feature film role. Working with McMurtry and supporting his material has become a Randy Quaid career tradition. Quaid's performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005) was listed as one of the New York Observer's 2005 Noteworthy male performances.

Randy's upcoming roles on the big screen continue his bold appetite for challenges. He most recently finished filming Goya's Ghosts (2006) for director Milos Forman. Forman cast Randy as "King Carlos IV of Spain" after seeing his Golden globe nominated performance as The Colonel. In Last Flag Flying (2010), to be directed by Richard Linklater, he will reprise his Academy award nominated performance in the sequel to The Last Detail (1973).


TRIVIA:

• Arrived in Hollywood, worked on Hollywood Boulevard as a janitor and within one year was nominated for an Oscar for _The Last Detail (1973)_ (qv).
• Older brother of 'Dennis Quaid' (qv).
• Playing the redneck sheep rancher boss of 'Heath Ledger' (qv) and 'Jake Gyllenhaal' (qv) in the critical and box office hit _Brokeback Mountain (2005)_ (qv), Randy filed a lawsuit against the film's distributor, Focus Films, and its producers seeking at least $10 million claiming he was fleeced into working cheaply by the filmmakers' assertion that the film was "a low-budget, art-house film, with no prospect of making any money." The movie won three Oscars, included best director for 'Ang Lee' (qv) and topped $82 million at the domestic box office. He reportedly dropped the suit after his lawyers told him Focus agreed to pay him a bonus, which he claims would be split between him and other principal cast members. Focus denies any such settlement; however, the lawsuit has been dropped.
• Along with his brother 'Dennis Quaid' (qv), he attended Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas. Other celebrities attending the school at the same time included 'Brent Spiner' (qv) ("Data" from _"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv), although he used his adopted name, Brent Mintz) and 'Cindy Pickett' (qv) from _Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)_ (qv). Another significant member of Bellaire High School was Coach Knoblauch, who is the father of 'Chuck Knoblauch' (qv), professional Major League baseball player who played for the Minnesota Twins from 1991-1997, the New York Yankees from 1998-2001, and the Kansas City Royals in 2002.
• Nominated for an Oscar at the age of 21 for his work with Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail.
• Met his wife, Evi, on the set of Bloodhounds of Broadway.
• In 1994, he lived in a home in Santa Monica, but when an earthquake destroyed it he flew to New York, checked into the Carlyle Hotel and stayed for close to a year before relocating back to Los Angeles.
• (July 2008) Attended the 43rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.