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  • Quaid's Berlin Wall memories - 11 September 2009
    -Actor Dennis Quaid was overjoyed to film scenes for upcoming movie Pandorum in Germany, because it brought back memories of his involvement in the fall of the Berlin Wall.- -The 55 year old headed to the German capital to work on the sci-fi film - and was immediately


  • Quaid joins stars on Walk of Fame - 18 November 2005
    Actor Dennis Quaid, best known for his roles in The Big Easy and Far From Heaven, is the latest person to receive a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame.-The 51-year-old, who has also appeared in The Parent Trap and Wyatt Earp, has enjoyed a long career in the fi

Dennis Quaid - what members say


  • The Parent Trap
  • The Parent Trap review by from the Midlands
    Rated - 5 stars Worth the Watch 20 January 2004
    ...Enter Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday), and an excellent supporting cast including Dennis Quaid (Frequency, the Rookie) and Natasha Richardson (Maid in Manhattan) they have al...  
  • The Right Stuff
  • The Right Stuff review by from UK
    Rated - 5 stars Reach for the Stars 18 June 2004
    ...ach and with an all star cast (Ed Harris and Sam Shepard are both excellent but Dennis Quaid's cocky pilot steals the show) Featuring a much copied enging (see Ocean's E...  
  • Frequency
  • Frequency review by from ENGLAND
    Rated - 4 stars Good all rounder 25 July 2006
    ...What a young Dennis Quaid this is. We really enjoyed this film it was both entertaining and was able to be watched by the whole family. It's nice to watch a film that doe...  

Dennis Quaid - filmography


  • Legion (2010)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Doug Jones,  Paul Bettany
    Director: Scott Charles Stewart
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world, a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity's last line of defense when they discover the diner's young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 12 members
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  • Pandorum - BLU-RAY Version (2009)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Ben Foster,  Cam Gigandet
    Director: Christian Alvart
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can't remember anything. Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 15th February 2010
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  • Pandorum (2009)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Ben Foster,  Cam Gigandet
    Director: Christian Alvart
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can't remember anything. Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 44 members
    Due for release on 15th February 2010
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  • Horsemen Of The Apocalypse on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Ziyi Zhang,  Lou Taylor Pucci
    Director: Jonas Akerlund
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dennis Quaid (FREQUENCY) stars in this thriller of Biblical proportions. Widowed detective Aidan Breslin (Quaid) looks into a series of seemingly dissimilar murders, but his investigation soon uncovers the work of a killer who is using Revelations' Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as a template. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 161 members
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  • G.I. Joe - The Rise of Cobra (2009)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Christopher Eccleston,  Sienna Miller
    Director: Stephen Sommers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The 'Real American Hero' or 'Action Man', as he is known to British audiences, goes international with this big-screen action film. Stephen Sommers (THE MUMMY, VAN HELSING) directs this live-action adventure featuring a huge cast of stars, including Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 269 members
    Due for release on 7th December 2009
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  • The Express on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Rob Brown,  Omar Benson Miller
    Director: Gary Fleder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a true story, "The Express" follows the extraordinary life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. His fight for equality and respect forever changed the face of American sports, and his story continues to inspire new generations. Raised ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,039 member
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  • Express, The - BLU-RAY Version (2008)
    Starring: Nelsan Ellis,  Rob Brown,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Gary Fleder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This inspirational sports drama tackles the true story of Ernie Davis (Rob Brown, TAKE THE LEAD). The first black football player to win the coveted Heisman, Davis faced obstacles both on and off the field. Dennis Quaid co-stars as Syracuse Orangemen coach Ben Schwartzwalder.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 55 members
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  • American Dreamz on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Dennis Quaid,  Mandy Moore
    Director: Paul Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In the world of right-now, it seems as if literally everybody wants to be famous. Thanks to the global phenomenon of reality television, literally anyone can be. From the Director of American Pie & About a Boy, Hugh Grant has never been better as the sleazy, self-centred host of the hugely popular ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 10,296 members
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  • Yours, Mine And Ours on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Rene Russo,  Linda Hunt
    Director: Raja Gosnell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a film from 1968 (that starred Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda), this is a family comedy about two large families who come together to create total chaos. Helen (Renee Russo) is the free-spirited mother of ten, including six adopted children. Meanwhile, Admiral Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 7,623 members
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  • Flight Of The Phoenix on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Giovanni Ribisi,  Tyrese
    Director: John Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible; building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 27,940 members
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  • Cold Creek Manor on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Sharon Stone,  Stephen Dorff
    Director: Mike Figgis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After a succession of films boldly exploring the possibilities of digital video (TIMECODE, HOTEL), Mike Figgis returns to more traditional narrative terrain with this atmospheric thriller. Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone star as Cooper and Leah Tilson, a New York City couple who decide to move to the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 7,410 members
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  • Frequency on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Shawn Doyle,  Elizabeth Mitchell
    Director: Gregory Hoblit
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An inspiring, hopeful psychological thriller, FREQUENCY features two standout performances by Quaid (D.O.A.) and Caviezel (THE THIN RED LINE). Caviezel is John Sullivan, a 36-year-old police officer who has never quite gotten over the early death of his father, Frank (Quaid), a firefighter who lost ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,682 members
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  • Any Given Sunday on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Cameron Diaz,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone's hard-hitting look at the adrenaline-fueled world of pro football stars Al Pacino as Miama Sharks coach Tony D'Amato. Having just lost his star quarterback, Jack Rooney (Dennis Quaid), he's forced to use the erratic Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx) off the bench, hoping he can resuscitate ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 7,044 members
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  • Gang Related on DVD (1997)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Lela Rochon,  Tupac Shakur
    Director: Jim Kouf,  Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A pair of world-weary vice cops (James Belushi and Tupac Shakur) spend their off-hours selling off their confiscated drugs and murdering their buyers, cleaning the streets and padding their own pockets simultaneously. But their plan falls flat when a victim turns out to have been an undercover DEA ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 604 members
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  • Dragonheart - HD DVD Version (1996)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Sean Connery,  Pete Postlethwaite
    Director: Rob Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sean Connery provides the voice of the last dragon on earth in this medieval tale of a freelance knight (Dennis Quaid) who's forced to turn against the tyrant king (David Thewlis) he tutored as a boy. In order to bring the king to justice the noble warrior must kill him, but in doing so he would ..read more »
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  • Dragonheart on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Sean Connery,  Pete Postlethwaite
    Director: Rob Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bowen, a young knight dedicated to the Old Code of Honor of King Arthur, serves his queen by tutoring her son Einon in ethics, morality and swordsmanship. The king is slain during a massacre of rebellious villagers, and a peasant girl causes Einon to fall on a wooden stake which impales his heart. ..read more »
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  • Wyatt Earp on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Dennis Quaid,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,930 members
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  • Flesh And Bone on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Meg Ryan,  James Caan
    Director: Steve Kloves
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Arlis Sweeny (Quaid) leads a life as simple and unchanging as his native West Texas plains. He stocks vending machines, moving from town to town and from one familiar lover to another. Kay Davies (Ryan) also calls the road her home. Running from a broken marriage, she doesn't know where she's ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 277 members
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  • Postcards From The Edge on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Dennis Quaid,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An actress with a drug and alcohol problem, recovering from a near fatal overdose, accepts a minor role in a film on the condition that she lives with a responsible person during her rehabilitation. That 'person' is her mother, a big star from the 50's who sees herself in her daughter. Both must ..read more »
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  • Great Balls Of Fire on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Winona Ryder,  Trey Wilson
    Director: Jim McBride
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The explosive story of the meteoric rise of rock and roll's most daring living legend, Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid). Features the songs and escapades that catapulted him to the top of the charts, as well as his controversial third marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, which almost destroyed his career.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 606 members
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  • The Big Easy on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Ellen Barkin,  Ned Beatty
    Director: Jim McBride
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this steamy, spicy mystery a prosecutor is sent to New Orleans to investigate police corruption. All the evidence points to a Cajun detective she falls in love with immediately, and though the trial forces him temporarily off the squad it doesn't stop him from investigating the case or from ..read more »
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  • Suspect on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Cher,  Liam Neeson
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Supreme Court judge takes his own life. A woman is found dead - victim of a grisly murder and a homeless Vietnam veteran stands accused. The Washington D.C. public defender and a lobbyist on the jury team up; a violation of the law - find out the real truth no matter the cost... or the danger...
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  • Innerspace on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Meg Ryan,  Kevin McCarthy
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dennis Quaid stars as Lieutenant Tuck Pendleton, a hell-raising Navy test pilot, in this fantasy-suspense comedy that harkens back to 1966's FANTASTIC VOYAGE. Pendleton volunteers to be miniaturised in a scientific experiment and fly a capsule injected into a rabbit's bloodstream for top-secret ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,783 members
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  • The Right Stuff on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sam Shepard,  Scott Glenn,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,627 members
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  • Dreamscape on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Max Von Sydow,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Joseph Ruben
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this sci-fi thriller, Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid), a young, extremely gifted psychic, is taught by a doctor (Max von Sydow) to actually enter other peoples' dreams, and even participate in them. Another psychic is being groomed to enter the troubled dreams of the President of the United States, ..read more »
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  • Jaws 3 on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Bess Armstrong,  Simon MacCorkindale
    Director: Joe Alves
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The third film in the successful JAWS franchise follows yet another great white shark with an appetite for humans, this time invading the opening ceremonies of a marine park in Florida. The brand new complex offers visitors the chance to view the undersea kingdom from the safety of glass tunnels on ..read more »
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  • Caveman on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Ringo Starr,  Barbara Bach,  Shelley Long
    Director: Carl Gottlieb
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this spoof of prehistoric times, a bunch of misfit cavemen who have been ousted from their various tribes band together and form their own. The gang embarks on various misadventures and in the process learns about walking upright, using tools, creating fire--and the true meaning of friendship. ..read more »
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  • Bill (1981)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Dennis Quaid,  Largo Woodruff
    Director: Anthony Page
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bill a retarded man ventures out into the world for the first time. Having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city Institution. He is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love for the first time in his life.
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Dennis Quaid facts

5 most recent films

Legion - 4.0 stars
G.I. Joe - The Rise Of Cobra - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Horsemen Of The Apocalypse - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Pandorum - BLU-RAY Version - 3 stars
Pandorum - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Breaking Away - 3.5 stars
Express, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Express - 3.5 stars
Day After Tomorrow, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Parent Trap - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Pandorum - BLU-RAY Version - 3 stars
Bill - 3.0 stars
G.I. Joe - The Rise Of Cobra - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Switchback - 3.0 stars
Pandorum - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Said Taghmaoui - 5 times - show films
Brendan Fraser - 4 times - show films
Jonathan Pryce - 4 times - show films
Gene Hackman - 4 times - show films
Sienna Miller - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Sommers - 4 times - show films
John Lee Hancock - 3 times - show films
Lawrence Kasdan - 3 times - show films
Peter Yates - 2 times - show films
Paul Weitz - 2 times - show films