Randy Quaid

Known for: Acting

Born: 1950-10-01 (age 75)

From: Houston, Texas, USA

Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, producer, writer and musician 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.

Filmography (124)

MOVIE★ 6.3
The Christmas Letter
2024
as Postman
MOVIE★ 6.5
All You Can Eat
2018
as Gordon
MOVIE
The Randy & Evi Quaid Compilation
2015
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.8
Star Whackers
2011
as Randy Quaid
TV
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009
as Himself
MOVIE★ 5.0
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
2009
as Coach Lew Tuttle
MOVIE★ 6.3
Real Time
2008
as Reuben
MOVIE★ 6.6
Goya's Ghosts
2006
as King Carlos IV
MOVIE★ 5.7
Blade: House of Chthon
2006
as Melvin
TV★ 6.5
Blade: The Series
2006
TV
Texas Ranch House
2006
MOVIE★ 5.5
Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up
2006
as Rockin' Rory (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.0
Treasure Island Kids: The Battle of Treasure Island
2006
as Captain Flint
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Ice Harvest
2005
as Bill Guerrard
TV★ 6.7
Category 7: The End of the World
2005
as Tornado Tommy Dixon
MOVIE★ 7.8
Brokeback Mountain
2005
as Joe Aguirre
MOVIE★ 6.2
Once Upon a Halloween
2005
as Alameda Slim (voice) (archive sound)
TV★ 6.3
Elvis
2005
as 'Colonel' Tom Parker
MOVIE★ 8.0
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.1
Back By Midnight
2005
as Eli Rockwood
MOVIE★ 6.3
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004
as Tornado Tommy
TV★ 9.2
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004
as Tornado Tommy Dixon
TV★ 6.4
5ive Days to Midnight
2004
as Irwin Sikorski
MOVIE★ 6.1
Home on the Range
2004
as Alameda Slim (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.0
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
2003
as Eddie Johnson
TV★ 10.0
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire
2003
MOVIE★ 6.0
Grind
2003
as Jock Jensen
MOVIE★ 5.8
Carolina
2003
as Ted Mirabeau
MOVIE★ 6.2
Kart Racer
2003
as Vic Davies
MOVIE★ 5.7
Black Cadillac
2003
as Charlie
MOVIE★ 4.8
Milwaukee, Minnesota
2003
as Jerry James
MOVIE★ 4.4
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002
as Bruno
MOVIE★ 4.4
Frank McKlusky, C.I.
2002
as Madman McKlusky
MOVIE★ 5.8
Not Another Teen Movie
2001
as Mr. Briggs
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Day the World Ended
2001
as Dr. Michael McCann
TV★ 3.8
Good Day Live
2001
as Self
TV★ 7.1
Night Visions
2001
as Michael Doyle (segment "After Life")
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Thin Blue Lie
2000
as Phil Chadway
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
as Cappy von Trapment
MOVIE★ 5.8
Mail to the Chief
2000
as President A. Thorton Osgood II
TV★ 6.9
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
as Jack Woods
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Debtors
1999
MOVIE★ 6.3
Last Rites
1999
as Jeremy Dillon
MOVIE★ 7.2
Purgatory
1999
as Doc Woods / Doc Holliday
MOVIE★ 5.4
P.U.N.K.S
1999
as Pat Utley
MOVIE★ 9.0
Water War
1998
as Lenny
MOVIE★ 3.9
Bug Buster
1998
as General George S. Merlin
MOVIE★ 5.9
Hard Rain
1998
as Sheriff Mike Collins
MOVIE★ 3.9
Valentine's Day
1998
as Phil
MOVIE★ 6.0
Vegas Vacation
1997
as Cousin Eddie
MOVIE★ 6.4
Get on the Bus
1996
as Tennessee State Trooper (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.5
Kingpin
1996
as Ishmael Boorg
MOVIE★ 6.9
Independence Day
1996
as Russell Casse
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Randy Weaver
TV
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Randy Weaver
MOVIE★ 6.4
Moonshine Highway
1996
as Sheriff Miller
MOVIE★ 5.7
Last Dance
1996
as Sam Burns
MOVIE★ 4.1
Woman Undone
1996
as Allan Hansen
TV★ 6.3
Streets of Laredo
1995
as John Wesley Hardin
MOVIE★ 7.0
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1995
MOVIE★ 4.8
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
1995
as Detective Steve Carella
MOVIE★ 6.0
Bye Bye Love
1995
as Vic Damico
MOVIE★ 4.6
Curse of the Starving Class
1994
as Taylor
MOVIE★ 4.9
Next Door
1994
as Lenny Benedetti
MOVIE★ 4.5
Roommates
1994
as Jim Flynn
MOVIE★ 5.7
Major League II
1994
as Johnny (ucredited)
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Paper
1994
as Michael McDougal
MOVIE★ 6.9
Frankenstein
1993
as The Monster
MOVIE★ 6.2
Freaked
1993
as Elijah C. Skuggs
TV★ 7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
TV★ 7.5
Murder in the Heartland
1993
as Elmer Scheele
MOVIE★ 9.5
Picture This
1991
as Self
TV★ 7.0
Davis Rules
1991
as Dwight Davis
MOVIE★ 6.0
Texasville
1990
as Lester Marlow
MOVIE★ 5.3
Cold Dog Soup
1990
as Jack Cloud
MOVIE★ 6.7
Quick Change
1990
as Loomis
MOVIE★ 6.4
Days of Thunder
1990
as Tim Dalander
MOVIE★ 7.2
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989
as Cousin Eddie
MOVIE★ 5.7
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as Feet Samuels
MOVIE★ 4.1
Martians Go Home
1989
as Mark Devereaux
MOVIE★ 5.9
Out Cold
1989
as Lester
MOVIE★ 5.9
Parents
1989
as Nick Laemle
MOVIE★ 6.0
Dead Solid Perfect
1988
as Kenny Lee
TV★ 6.5
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.2
Caddyshack II
1988
as Peter Blunt
MOVIE★ 5.6
Moving
1988
as Frank / Cornall Crawford
MOVIE★ 6.0
Evil in Clear River
1988
as Pete Suvak
MOVIE★ 6.0
No Man's Land
1987
as Lieutenant Vincent Bracey
MOVIE★ 7.6
LBJ: The Early Years
1987
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
MOVIE★ 4.9
Sweet Country
1987
as Juan
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Wraith
1986
as Sheriff Loomis
MOVIE★ 5.6
Fool for Love
1985
as Martin
MOVIE★ 3.6
The Slugger's Wife
1985
as Moose Granger
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Wild Life
1984
as Charlie
MOVIE★ 5.8
A Streetcar Named Desire
1984
as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell
MOVIE★ 7.1
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
as Cousin Eddie
MOVIE
Cowboy
1983
as Evan Coleman
TV★ 8.0
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Putzi Hanfstaengel
TV★ 6.6
American Playhouse
1982
as Feet Samuels
MOVIE
The Luck of Roaring Camp
1982
as Kentuck
MOVIE★ 4.5
Heartbeeps
1981
as Charlie
MOVIE★ 7.5
Of Mice and Men
1981
as Lenny Small
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Long Riders
1980
as Clell Miller
TV★ 7.3
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980
as Clayton Ritchie
MOVIE★ 8.8
To Race the Wind
1980
as Chet Watson
MOVIE★ 6.0
Foxes
1980
as Jay
MOVIE★ 3.3
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1979
as Grat Dalton
MOVIE★ 7.4
Midnight Express
1978
as Jimmy Booth
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Choirboys
1977
as Dean Proust
MOVIE★ 4.6
Three Warriors
1977
as Ranger Quentin Hammond
MOVIE★ 6.9
Bound for Glory
1976
as Luther Johnson
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Missouri Breaks
1976
as Tittle Tod
TV★ 6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Various Characters
MOVIE★ 6.3
Breakout
1975
as Hawk Hawkins
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Great Niagara
1974
as Carl Grant
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Virgil
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Last Detail
1973
as Laurence M. 'Larry' Meadows
MOVIE★ 7.9
Paper Moon
1973
as Leroy
MOVIE★ 6.0
Lolly-Madonna XXX
1973
as Finch Feather
MOVIE★ 7.4
What's Up, Doc?
1972
as Professor Hosquith
MOVIE★ 10.0
Getting Away from It All
1972
as Herbie
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Last Picture Show
1971
as Lester Marlow
TV★ 7.8
Night Gallery
1970