| Fun Facts About Randy Quaid | 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 Minnesota Twins from 1991-1997, the New York Yankees from 1998-2001, and 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" (1975).
Playing the redneck sheep rancher boss of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the critical and box office hit Brokeback Mountain (2005), 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 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.
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.
Attended the 43rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic. [July 2008]
Was considered for the role of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975);.
Milos Forman cast Quaid as the King of Spain in Goya's Ghosts after seeing his work as Tom Parker in the Elvis Mini series with John Rhys Meyers by phoning him and saying, "You are a great actor. You must be my King or I must repaint Goya".
Colored his hair red and rented a fake full length fur coat from Universal for the Slam Dance opening night for his film Real Time, the second film to be featured at Slam Dance starring Randy Quaid.
A full 5 inches taller then his brother Dennis Quaid.
When Randy was marrying his wife Evi, Dennis Quaid was scheduled to be the best man. Unfortunately, he was running late, so his girlfriend (later wife, then ex-wife) Meg Ryan substituted for him in the wedding party.
Randy was working as a stand-up comedian, when he was 'discovered' by director Peter Bogdonavich.
Before discovering acting in high school, Randy considered being a professional golfer | |
