Career: After an initial struggle to find work, Quaid had a number of small roles on TV and in film before enjoying success with 1979's Breaking Away. He co-starred with Randy, as well as the Keach brothers and the Carradines, in the Western The Long Riders a year later. Quaid gained great reviews for the movie The Right Stuff in 1983, the same year he made the disastrous Jaws 3-D. The late-1980s brought him a series of box-office hits, such as Enemy Mine (1985), The Big Easy (1986), Innerspace (1987), Suspect (1987) and DOA (1988). Movies since then include Great Balls of Fire (1989), Wyatt Earp (1994), Traffic (2000) and Far from Heaven (2002), for which he won a clutch of awards. More recent offerings include GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra (2009), Pandorum (2009) and the remake of Footloose (2011). He starred in short-lived period drama Vegas, which ran for one season before being cancelled.

Career: Gossett starred in the Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun and later made his film debut in the 1961 big-screen version of the play alongside Sidney Poitier. He went on to win an Emmy for the role of Fiddler in the 1977 TV miniseries Roots, and made history by becoming the first African-American male to win an Oscar in a supporting role for his part in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). He also made an impact playing an Air Force pilot in the action film Iron Eagle (1986) and its three sequels.