Think I know what I'm going to be watching in a little while...
That clip wasn't ideal...I was trying to find a clip of the scene where he's saying "I'm all better...I'd like to come back inside now" and that montage of who died when was the only place I could find it!You beat me to the punch. I was going to post a "The Thing"-related YouTube video of him, as I don't think enough people pay enough attention to this gem of a movie or his gem of a character in it.
I just re-watched this movie within the last couple of months, but I think I might have to watch it again in homage to him.
That clip wasn't ideal...I was trying to find a clip of the scene where he's saying "I'm all better...I'd like to come back inside now" and that montage of who died when was the only place I could find it!
Not sure, Article says kidney ailment.
I always think of his mustache so I've been calling my gone wild Covid-19 mustache a "Wilford Brimley", so now it's a Brimley tribute mustache. Wilfred tribute until I handlebar it next month for my East India Trading Company tribute stache.
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That is what I thought, too. But it turns out he was 50 and they made that and they made him up to match the age of his co-stars.I figured he was older than that even. He seemed like he was in his 70's back when he made Cocoon and that was 1985.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/8a5b414c-a4ec-4148-b4f0-4e404826911dThat is what I thought, too. But it turns out he was 50 and they made that and they made him up to match the age of his co-stars.
I figure, if you make it past 70, everything after that is extra credit. So if you make it to 85, you have long beaten the system. And if you do it while battling diabetes, you are truly a warrior.
My memory of him was of the "boner" scene in the movie Cocoon. (This was an early Ron Howard movie, basically where a group of retirees encounter an alien fountain of youth.) Keep in mind, this was family entertainment, and not explicit. But it was also more than a decade prior to the invention of Viagra, so what was depicted - again not graphically - was a suspended disbelief, sci-fi moment. I searched for it, but could not find it. If someone could dig it up, it would be fun to see it.