Arrived in Hollywood, worked on Hollywood Boulevard as a janitor and within one year was nominated for an Oscar for The Last Detail (1973).
Sings in the animated movie Home on the Range (2004).
Was directed by wife Evi Quaid in The Debtors (1999).
Played the character of Doc Holliday in the movie Purgatory (1999) (TV). His brother, Dennis Quaid, played the same character in the movie Wyatt Earp (1994).
Along with his brother Dennis Quaid, he attended Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas. Other celebrities attending the school at the same time included Brent Spiner ("Data" from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), although he used his adopted name, Brent Mintz) and Cindy Pickett from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Another significant member of Bellaire High School was Coach Knoblauch, who is the father of Chuck Knoblauch, professional Major League baseball player who played for the Minnesotta Twins from 1991-1997, the New York Yankees from 1998-2001, and on the Kansas City Royals in 2002.
He ties with Chevy Chase and Kevin Nealon as the tallest cast member to date on "Saturday Night Live."
Randy Quaid Detailed Biography
Oscar, Emmy, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Randy Quaid is regarded as one of the most versatile character stars in Hollywood. Quaid can be seen in Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Ice Harvest (2005) and the independent film Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003). His career started off in award nomination fashion with the fragile, sweet characters he created in such films as The Last Detail (1973) (Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination), The Last Picture Show (1971) and Midnight Express (1978). He has proven an actor of dominating and even intimidating strength, most memorably in his Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe winning television performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years (1987) (TV). Quaid has delighted filmmakers and fans alike with the range and mobility of his talent, with his adventurous quest to stretch the variety of his characterizations and even with the skill with which he has morphed his appearance. Like the other great-unchained character lead stars of all time, Quaid has been, by turns, dangerous, romantic, tragic and wackily comedic (Kingpin (1996), Independence Day (1996)). His stage credits include the New York off-Broadway productions of Sam Shepard's "God Of Hell" and "True West".
