埃里克·罗伯茨曾是当红的八十年代青春偶像和九十年代动作明星，演出的众多质量参差不齐的动作类型电视片让他成为九十年代美国流行文化里的一个符号。1979年，23岁的他凭借《吉普赛之王》获得金球奖新人奖提名，84年凭《情，难舍》获金球男演员奖提名，后更凭借《逃亡列车》同时被金球和奥斯卡提名最佳男配角。1987年，埃里克首登百老汇出演“Burn This”，又一举摘得戏剧世界奖。此后除了拍有百余部动作电视片外，他也是唯一一位出演过“英伦神秘博士”的美国演员，然而他在《神秘博士》中的演技并不为人所称道。

　　少女明星艾玛·罗伯茨是他同前妻的女儿。他的妹妹、著名影星朱莉娅·罗伯茨曾因为艾玛而与他疏远，据称朱莉娅因为埃里克的毒品问题而支持由艾玛的母亲来抚养孩子。不过2004年朱莉娅产下双胞胎之后，埃里克前来看望，兄妹关系这才得以修复。

Randy Quaid is an Academy Award-nominated actor, for his performance in The Last Detail (1973) . Hal Ashby directed Quaid in the role of Meadows opposite Jack Nicholson and Otis Young. Quaid is a great and much-admired actor that has been recognized by Hollywood and the world's finest directors, Midnight Express, The Last Picture Show, Ice Harvest (2005), Real Time (2008), King Carlos in Goya's Ghosts (2006) for director Milos Forman. Forman cast Quaid as "King Carlos IV of Spain" after seeing his Golden Globe-nominated performance as The Colonel in Elvis. Quaid also starred in such mainstream favorites as Kingpin (1996), Vacation (1983), Christmas Vacation (1989) and Independence day (1996).

Quaid earned a Golden Globe for portraying Lyndon Johnson, and received a Golden Globe Nomination for incarnating "Colonel" Tom Parker in Elvis (2005). The portrait of Colonel Parker, a former carnival barker with a murky past, is dark. The New York Times said "Mr. Quaid is riveting as the bully of Graceland" when he has Elvis firmly under his thumb, he is the L.B.J. of rock 'n' roll - a towering, wheedling, tirelessly self-promoting Southern fox in the rare instances when Elvis defies him, Colonel Parker shrinks into a hand-wringing phony, cajoling his only client in the overly ornate language of Professor Marvel in "The Wizard of Oz".

Quaid stars in and was nominated for The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a cast for his work in Brokeback Mountain(2005), directed by Ang Lee from a script written by Larry McMurtry, who also wrote The Last Picture Show (1971) in which Quaid had his first feature film role. Working with McMurtry and supporting his material has become a Randy Quaid career tradition. Quaid's performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005) was listed as one of the New York Observer's 2005 Noteworthy male performances. In 2009 Randy Quaid Won the Vancouver Critics Award for Best Male Performance in the Feature Film Real-Time for the Role of Rubin