Randy Quaid
Born: 1950-10-01 in Houston, Texas, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night as Self
2024
- The Christmas Letter as Postman
2018
- All You Can Eat as Gordon
2015
- The Randy & Evi Quaid Compilation as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
- Star Whackers as Randy Quaid
2009
- Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach as Coach Lew Tuttle
- Joy Behar: Say Anything! as Himself
2008
- Real Time as Reuben
2006
- Blade: The Series
- Goya's Ghosts as King Carlos IV
- Blade: House of Chthon as Melvin
- Treasure Island Kids: The Battle of Treasure Island as Captain Flint
- Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up as Rockin' Rory (voice)
- Texas Ranch House
2005
- Brokeback Mountain as Joe Aguirre
- The Ice Harvest as Bill Guerrard
- Once Upon a Halloween as Alameda Slim (voice) (archive sound)
- Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found as Self
- Back By Midnight as Eli Rockwood
- Category 7: The End of the World as Tornado Tommy
- Elvis as 'Colonel' Tom Parker
- Category 7: The End of the World as Tornado Tommy Dixon
2004
- Home on the Range as Alameda Slim (voice)
- 5ive Days to Midnight as Irwin Sikorski
- Category 6: Day of Destruction as Tornado Tommy
- Category 6: Day of Destruction as Tornado Tommy Dixon
2003
- Black Cadillac as Charlie
- Carolina as Ted Mirabeau
- Grind as Jock Jensen
- Kart Racer as Vic Davies
- Milwaukee, Minnesota as Jerry James
- Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure as Eddie Johnson
- The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire
2002
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash as Bruno
- Frank McKlusky, C.I. as Madman McKlusky
2001
- Good Day Live as Self
- Not Another Teen Movie as Mr. Briggs
- Night Visions as Michael Doyle (segment "After Life")
- The Day the World Ended as Dr. Michael McCann
2000
- The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle as Cappy von Trapment
- Mail to the Chief as President A. Thorton Osgood II
- The Thin Blue Lie as Phil Chadway
1999
- Purgatory as Doc Woods / Doc Holliday
- The Debtors
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns as Jack Woods
- P.U.N.K.S as Pat Utley
- Last Rites as Jeremy Dillon
1998
- Bug Buster as General George S. Merlin
- Hard Rain as Sheriff Mike Collins
- Valentine's Day as Phil
- Water War as Lenny
1997
- Vegas Vacation as Cousin Eddie
1996
- Independence Day as Russell Casse
- Kingpin as Ishmael Boorg
- Last Dance as Sam Burns
- Woman Undone as Allan Hansen
- Moonshine Highway as Sheriff Miller
- Get on the Bus as Tennessee State Trooper (uncredited)
- The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self (archive footage)
- The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Randy Weaver
1995
- Bye Bye Love as Vic Damico
- Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning as Detective Steve Carella
- Streets of Laredo as John Wesley Hardin
- Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1994
- The Paper as Michael McDougal
- Next Door as Lenny Benedetti
- Major League II as Johnny (ucredited)
- Roommates as Jim Flynn
- Curse of the Starving Class as Taylor
1993
- Frankenstein as The Monster
- Freaked as Elijah C. Skuggs
- Murder in the Heartland as Elmer Scheele
1991
- Davis Rules as Dwight Davis
- Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas as Self
1990
- Days of Thunder as Tim Dalander
- Quick Change as Loomis
- Cold Dog Soup as Jack Cloud
- Texasville as Lester Marlow
1989
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as Cousin Eddie
- Parents as Nick Laemle
- Out Cold as Lester
- Martians Go Home as Mark Devereaux
- Bloodhounds of Broadway as Feet Samuels
1988
- American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- Caddyshack II as Peter Blunt
- Moving as Frank / Cornall Crawford
- Dead Solid Perfect as Kenny Lee
- Evil in Clear River as Pete Suvak
1987
- Sweet Country as Juan
- No Man's Land as Lieutenant Vincent Bracey
- LBJ: The Early Years as Lyndon Baines Johnson
1986
- The Wraith as Sheriff Loomis
1985
- The Slugger's Wife as Moose Granger
- Fool for Love as Martin
1984
- The Wild Life as Charlie
- A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell
1983
- National Lampoon's Vacation as Cousin Eddie
- Cowboy as Evan Coleman
1982
- Inside the Third Reich as Putzi Hanfstaengel
1981
- Heartbeeps as Charlie
- Of Mice and Men as Lenny Small
1980
- The Long Riders as Clell Miller
- To Race the Wind as Chet Watson
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Clayton Ritchie
- Foxes as Jay
1979
- The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang as Grat Dalton
1978
- Midnight Express as Jimmy Booth
1977
- The Choirboys as Dean Proust
- Three Warriors as Ranger Quentin Hammond
1976
- The Missouri Breaks as Tittle Tod
- Bound for Glory as Luther Johnson
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Various Characters
- Breakout as Hawk Hawkins
1974
- The Great Niagara as Carl Grant
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Virgil
1973
- The Last Detail as Seaman Larry Meadows
- Paper Moon as Leroy
- Lolly-Madonna XXX as Finch Feather
1972
- Getting Away from It All as Herbie
- What's Up, Doc? as Professor Hosquith
1971
- The Last Picture Show as Lester Marlow