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| 3 | Randall Rudy Quaid (born October 1, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor, who first gained traction in the 1970s as a character actor. He first got widespread attention playing the ill-fated Navy sailor Meadows in ''Film/TheLastDetail'', which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Throughout his career, he's dabbled in more dramatic work such as ''Film/MidnightExpress'' and ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and comedic films such as ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation''. |
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| 5 | Quaid was actually a cast member on the long-running American sketch show ''Saturday Night Live'' during the 1985-1986 season (when Lorne Michaels returned to run his show after the failure of ''The New Show'' and nearly got ''SNL'' canceled due to the cast he hired and the writers who couldn't make Lorne's new cast funny). Presumably, Quaid was hired because Creator/JimCarrey passed up the chance to be on ''SNL'' after seeing a man threatening to jump off the Studio 8H building and feared that being on the show would drive him to suicide. Like the majority of season 11 cast members, he wasn't hired back for season 12. During his short time, Quaid only had two recurring characters: the floating head narrator for the ''Twilight Zone''-esque show, ''The Limits of the Imagination'', and Rudy Randolph, Jr. (the spokesman for an HonestJohnsDealership that sells a lot of shady items, such as Ferdinand Marcos' clothes, stolen Rolls Royces, and flood-damaged furniture. His son, Rudy Randolph III was played by Robert Downey, Jr.). Quaid's celebrity impressions include Ronald Reagan (who didn't look like him, but got the voice right -- and was often upstaged by Terry Sweeney's Nancy Reagan), John F. Kennedy, Ed [=McMahon=], Gregory Peck, Lyndon [=LaRouche=], Bob Guccione, and Roy Orbison. |
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| 7 | By the late-2000s, Quaid, alongside his wife Evi, would fall into a series of odd behavior, worrying about what he claimed were the "Hollywood Star Whackers", a cabal that supposedly killed celebrities such as Creator/HeathLedger and was fearing they were coming after him. After a series of legal issues, the Quaids moved to Canada in 2010. But after being denied citizenship, they ended up going to Vermont, where they reside today, away from the Hollywood lifestyle. |
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| 9 | He is the older brother of Creator/DennisQuaid and the uncle of Dennis's son, Creator/JackQuaid. |
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| 11 | !!Filmography: |
| 12 | * ''Film/TheLastPictureShow'' (1971) - Lester Marlow |
| 13 | ** ''Film/{{Texasville}}'' (1990) |
| 14 | * ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'' (1972) - Professor Hosquith |
| 15 | * ''Film/TheLastDetail'' (1973) - Larry Meadows |
| 16 | * ''Film/PaperMoon'' (1973) - Leroy |
| 17 | * ''Film/LollyMadonnaXXX'' (1973) - Finch Feather |
| 18 | * ''Film/TheApprenticeshipOfDuddyKravitz'' (1974) - Virgil |
| 19 | * ''Film/{{Breakout|1975}}'' (1975) - Hawkins |
| 20 | * ''Film/BoundForGlory'' (1976) - Luther Johnson |
| 21 | * ''Film/TheMissouriBreaks'' (1976) - Little Tod |
| 22 | * ''Film/TheChoirboys'' (1977) - Dean |
| 23 | * ''Film/ThreeWarriors'' (1977) - Ranger Quentin Hammond |
| 24 | * ''Film/MidnightExpress'' (1978) - Jimmy Booth |
| 25 | * ''Film/TheLongRiders'' (1980) - Clell Miller |
| 26 | * ''Film/{{Foxes|1980}}'' (1980) - Jay |
| 27 | * ''Film/{{Heartbeeps}}'' (1981) - Charlie |
| 28 | * ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'' (1983) - Cousin Eddie |
| 29 | ** ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'' (1989) |
| 30 | ** ''Film/VegasVacation'' (1997) |
| 31 | ** ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure'' (2003) |
| 32 | * ''Film/TheWildLife'' (1984) - Charlie |
| 33 | * ''Theatre/FoolForLove'' (1985) - Martin |
| 34 | * ''Film/TheSluggersWife'' (1985) - Moose Granger |
| 35 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (1985-1986) |
| 36 | * ''Film/TheWraith'' (1986) - Sheriff Loomis |
| 37 | * ''Film/NoMansLand'' (1987) - Vincent Bracey |
| 38 | * ''Film/{{Moving}}'' (1988) - Frank/Cornell Crawford |
| 39 | * ''[[Film/{{Caddyshack}} Caddyshack II]]'' (1988) - Peter Blunt |
| 40 | * ''Film/{{Moving}}'' (1988) - Frank and Cornell Crawford |
| 41 | * ''Film/BloodhoundsOfBroadway'' (1989) - Feet Samuels |
| 42 | * ''Film/{{Parents}}'' (1989) - Nick Laemle |
| 43 | * ''Film/QuickChange'' (1990) - Loomis |
| 44 | * ''Film/DaysOfThunder'' (1990) - Tim Daland |
| 45 | * ''Series/DavisRules'' (1991-1992) - Dwight Davis |
| 46 | * ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' (1993) - Elijah C. Skuggs |
| 47 | * ''Film/ThePaper'' (1994) - Michael |
| 48 | * ''Film/ByeByeLove'' (1995) - Vic Damico |
| 49 | * ''Film/LastDance'' (1996) - Sam Burns |
| 50 | * ''Film/{{Kingpin}}'' (1996) - Ishmael |
| 51 | * ''Film/IndependenceDay'' (1996) - Russell Casse |
| 52 | * ''Film/HardRain'' (1998) - Sheriff Mike Collins |
| 53 | * ''Film/MagicalLegendOfTheLeprechauns'' (1999) - Jack Woods |
| 54 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' (2000) - Cappy von Trapment |
| 55 | * ''Film/TheThinBlueLie'' (2000) - Phil Chadway |
| 56 | * ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'' (2001) - Mr. Briggs |
| 57 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'' (2002) - Bruno |
| 58 | * ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' (2004) - Alameda Slim |
| 59 | * ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' (2005) - Joe |
| 60 | * ''Film/TheIceHarvest'' (2005) - Bill Guerrard |
| 61 | * ''Film/RealTime'' (2008) - Reuben |
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