RANDY QUAID (Slim) gives a hypnotic performance as the voice of the yodeling cattle rustler who plots to take possession of the “Patch of Heaven” dairy farm. This roaring redhead in the ten-gallon underpants is one mean and depraved bad guy who wrote the book on how to rustle.
For over two decades, Oscar®, Emmy, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Randy Quaid has delighted filmmakers and fans alike with the range of his talent.
Throughout his career he has stretched the variety of his characterizations and skillfully morphed his appearance. Like the other great unchained character actors of his time, including Gene Hackman, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson, Quaid’s characters over the years have been in turn dangerous, romantic, tragic, and wackily comic.
He attracted critical notice and award nominations early in his career thanks to the fragile, sweet characters he created in such films as “The Last Detail” (for which he was nominated for an Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor in 1974), “The Last Picture Show,” “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” and “Midnight Express.” His ability to create lovable oddballs was perhaps never better expressed than in his work in 1996’s box-office smash “Independence Day,” where Quaid created a classic portrait of unlikely heroism as the tormented crop duster who saves the world.
Quaid has proven an actor of dominating and even intimidating strength, most memorably in his Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning television performances as President Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years and Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy. His talent for pathos was on display in 1984 when he portrayed Harold Mitchell, suitor of Blanche DuBois in the ABC telepicture A Streetcar Named Desire.
Quaid’s recent roles include his portrayal of a scheming opportunist opposite Troy Garity in the indie “Milwaukee, Minnesota” (a film that was shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and received top honors at the Deauville Film Festival in 2003) and a small town sheriff with a volatile temper and a big heart in David E. Kelley’s critically acclaimed “Brotherhood of Poland, N.H.” In June, Quaid will be seen on the small screen opposite Timothy Hutton in the Sci-Fi mini-series “5 Days to Midnight,” in which he undertakes the role of a detective hired to solve a murder before it is even committed.
His over 90 movie credits include “What’s Up Doc?,” “Paper Moon,” “Heartbeeps,” “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Fool for Love,” “Moving,” “Days of Thunder,” “Texasville,” “The Paper,” “Kingpin,” “Hard Rain,” “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” and the upcoming “The Battle of Treasure Island.”
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