Randy Rudy Quaid, simply known as Randy Quaid, is a famous American voice actor, film producer, musician, as well as an actor. Over the years, Randy Quaid has portrayed a number of memorable characters in television, yet perhaps his most popular performance was in Peter Werner’s film called “LBJ: The Early Years”, where he played the role of the 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson. The movie came out in 1987 and featured a cast of Patti LuPone, Morgan Brittany, Pat Hingle and Barry Corbin. For his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson, Randy Quaid received a Golden Globe award, as well as a nomination for an Emmy Award. In 1983, Randy Quaid made his first appearance in the comedy film series called “National Lampoon’s Vacation”, where he co-starred alongside Chevy Chase and Anthony Michael Hall. Quaid reprised his role as Eddie Johnson in the third installment of the series, which came out in 1989. Overall, the movie grossed more than $71 million in the box office and was met with positive reviews from the critics. Randy Quaid also starred in a 2003 sequel to the series entitled “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure”, where he played the main character. Another one of Randy Quaid’s memorable appearances was in a 2005 romantic drama film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal “Brokeback Mountain”, which was praised by many critics and won numerous awards, among which were Golden Globe Awards, MTV Movie Awards and Independent Spirit Awards.
Randy Quaid Net Worth $1 Million
A well-known actor, how rich is Randy Quaid? According to sources, Randy Quaid’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million – it has diminished over time due to his many legal issues.
Randy Quaid was born in 1950, in Houston, Texas, where he studied at the University of Houston. It was in the university where he was noticed by a film historian and director Peter Bogdanovich, who gave Quaid an opportunity to star in his drama film called “The Last Picture Show”. In his debut film, Randy Quaid co-starred alongside Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges – who received an Academy Award nomination for his role in the movie – Cybill Shepherd and Ellen Burstyn. Quaid then went on to appear in Alan Parker’s “Midnight Express”, Dean Devlin’s “Independence Day” with Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, altogether starringd in more than 90 films, as well as numerous theatre and television productions.
In addition to acting, Quaid also created a band entitled “Randy Quaid & The Fugitives”, with whom he recorded a single called “Star Whackers”.
Even though Quaid led a fairly successful career, it has been overshadowed by various legal issues. In 2009, Randy Quaid was arrested for burglary, and faced similar charges a year later. Quaid was also charged several times for misdemeanor, conspiracy and fraud, and had to spend a lot of money in order to pay bonds issued by courts.
A famous actor, Randy Quaid has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Golden Globe Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor(1987), Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor (2005)
Music Groups
“Randy Quaid & The Fugitives”
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1973), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor(1984), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (1987, 2005), Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (1989), Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor (2005)
Movies
“The Last Picture Show” (1971), “The Last Detail” (1973), “Midnight Express” (1978), “Independence Day” (1996), "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1984), "Elvis" (2005
TV Shows
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure, The God of Hell, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Guyana Tragedy (1980), A Streetcar Named Desire (1984), The Last Picture Show, Saturday Night Live (1985-1991),LBJ: The Early Years (1987)
I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side they present to the world. Those are good characters.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping center, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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Quaid no longer speaks to his younger brother Dennis do to a real estate deal gone horribly wrong, in Montecito California.
Quaids Father William Rudy Quaid left the family after Randy Quaid moved to Hollywood giving Quaid a step sister named Brandy Quaid and stepbrother named Buddy Quaid.
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Uncle of Zoe Grace Quaid, Boone Quaid and Jack Quaid.
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Was the voice of Capital One Credit cards from 2004-2010.
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He and his wife filed for bankruptcy in 2000, owing the I.R.S. $412,000; the state of California had several tax liens against them totaling more than $207,000. The State Was Paid In full in 2005 and The IRS debt was settled. And the case was closed in 2004.
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Moved to Los Angeles, California on his 21st birthday.
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He and his wife lived for long stretches of time in high-end hotels such as the Bel-Air, and the Carlyle, in New York.
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Has an Australian cattle dog named Doji Quaid. [2011]
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He was banned for life from the Actors' Equity Association as the result of fellow actors' official complaints about his behavior during the 2007 run of "Lone Star Love" -- a retelling of The Merry Wives of Windsor set in the 1860s in which Randy was cast as Colonel John Falstaff -- at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. He was also fined $81,572 by the union for his actions in Seattle, the equivalent of two weeks' salary for the cast; all 26 members of the cast brought charges against Quaid, maintaining that he "physically and verbally abused his fellow performers and that his oddball behavior forced the show to close." Another major issue was Randy's costume, over which he insisted he had final approval (he dyed his hair beet red and wore a codpiece the size and shape of an official N.F.L. football). Reacting to Equity's decision, Quaid said, "I am guilty of only one thing: Giving a performance that elicited a response so deeply felt by the actors and producers with little experience of my creative process that they actually think I am Falstaff.". [2008]
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Filed a lawsuit against Focus Features and producers David Linde and James Schamus in March 2006, claiming he was fleeced into working cheaply by the filmmakers' assertion that Brokeback Mountain (2005) was "a low-budget, art-house film, with no prospect of making any money." Brokeback Mountain, whose three Oscars included Best Director for Ang Lee, topped $82 million at the domestic box office. Quaid had been seeking at least $10 million but later dropped the lawsuit in May of 2006. "The circumstances of him dropping the suit are as mysterious as the circumstances under which he filed his claim," a Focus Features spokeswoman said at the time. The NYT Stated Focus had agreed to pay an undisclosed settlement.
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Has applied for refugee status in Canada with his wife.
An arrest warrant was issued for Randy and his wife, Evi Quaid, for failure to show up at a Santa Barbara, California court for an unpaid hotel bill on April 14, 2010. In a plea bargain, he was found not guilty of skipping out of the bill, while Evi was sentenced to a misdemeanor on April 28.
Cast in The Ice Harvest (2005) when Harold Ramis called him and asked him to do it, just as he did when he asked him to do the first "Vacation" film for him that he also directed.
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Married his wife, Evi Quaid, Three times, once in Monticeto, California, once in Hollywood close to his favorite hotel and Walk of Fame star, and once in Toronto, Canada since becoming a Refugee claimant. They were married at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California in 1989. 20 years later in 2009, they were arrested for allegedly defrauding the innkeeper, conspiracy, and burglary after allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 bill at the same hotel after an extended stay there in June 2009. Later it was learned the credit card used was overcharged by $73,000.
A full 5 inches taller than his brother, Dennis Quaid.
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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 (2008), the second film to be featured at "Slam Dance" starring Randy Quaid.
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Milos Forman cast Quaid as the "King of Spain" in Goya's Ghosts (2006) after seeing his work as Tom Parker in Elvis (2005) with Jonathan Rhys Meyers by phoning him and saying, "You are a great actor. You must be my King or I must repaint Goya".
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.
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Enjoys painting in his spare time.
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Met his wife, Evi Quaid, on the set of Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) in New York. Evi, 24 at the time, was a production assistant assigned to drive actors to the set and assist the costume designer .
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Randy Quaids Fathers name is William Rudy Quaid ,who told Quaid he is a first cousin, twice removed, of performer Gene Autry. Gene's maternal grandparents, Andrew Clinton Ozment and Margaret Malinda Pierce, were also Quaids paternal great-great-grandparents. Quaid is also Rumored to be a cousin of Richard Harris. Randy Quaid has no way of knowing if this is true or not.
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Father of 7 Frozen embryos with Wife Evi Quaid they have one child, Amanda Quaid, from ex-wife Ella Jolly's former Marriage.
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard on October 7, 2003. At a Screen Actors Guild awards show, he revealed that the star was near the site of the Roosevelt Hotel, where the promising actor first arrived off a bus from Houston three decades before.
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Randy Quaid Went to College at the University Of Houston.
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Played the character of Doc Holliday in the movie Purgatory (1999). His brother, Dennis Quaid, played the same character in the movie Wyatt Earp (1994).