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Dennis Quaid, 70, reveals he named his son Jack, 31, after a legendary movie star he met in the 1970s


In 1975, Dennis visited the set of a western called The Missouri Breaks that featured his older brother Randy in a supporting role. One of its main stars had an especially strong impact on young Dennis.

In 1975, Dennis visited the set of a western called The Missouri Breaks that featured his older brother Randy in a supporting role alongside Jack Nicholson (left) and Marlon Brando (right) F(left to right, top to bottom) Frederic Forrest, Jack Nicholson, John P Ryan, Randy Quaid and Harry Dean Stanton are all pictured in a publicity still for the movie Covering People last year, he looked back on the moment he decided to stop, sharing: 'I remember going home and having kind of a white light experience that I saw myself either dead or in jail or losing everything I had, and I didn't want that.'

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