Quaid (surname)

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Quaid is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:

A surname, family name, or last name is the portion of a personal name that indicates a person's family. Depending on the culture, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations based on the cultural rules.

Charles Edward Quaid was a New Zealand rugby union player. A hooker, Quaid represented Canterbury, Wellington, and Otago at a provincial level. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1938 tour of Australia on which he played four matches, including two internationals.

Dennis Quaid American actor

Dennis William Quaid is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, some of his notable credits include Breaking Away (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), The Big Easy (1986), Innerspace (1987), The Parent Trap (1998), Frequency (2000), Traffic (2000), The Rookie (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Vantage Point (2008), Footloose (2011), and Soul Surfer (2011). For his role in Far from Heaven (2002) he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor among other accolades.

Evgenia Helena "Evi" Quaid is an American film director. She is the wife of Oscar-nominated actor Randy Quaid.

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<i>Total Recall</i> (1990 film) 1990 science fiction action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven

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<i>Total Recall</i> (2012 film) 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman

Total Recall is a 2012 American dystopian science-fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman. The screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback was based on the 1990 film of the same name, which was adapted into a 1990 book by Piers Anthony. The movie and book were inspired by the 1966 short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. The film stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho, and Bill Nighy. Unlike the first film, the setting is on a dystopian Earth, not Mars, and has more political themes. The film blends American and Asian influences, notably in the settings and dominant populations of the two nation-states in the story: the United Federation of Britain and the Colony (Australia).

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