RIP Wilford Brimley
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I was watching him in the movie “Hard Target” the other night and was wondering if he was alive or dead. Guess this gives me an answer.
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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.
The one show I remember most involving him was a short lived drama on NBC called Our House. Synopsis was that his son dies and he invites his daughter in law and 3 grandchildren to live with him. Daughter in law was played by Deidre Hall who is known for the role of Marlena from days of our lives. The oldest daughter was played by Shannon Doherty.
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I saw him in person at a celebrity autograph show. I think a year ago this fall.
He looked pretty bad at the time. (No, I didn't get his autograph.)
He looked pretty bad at the time. (No, I didn't get his autograph.)
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!
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!
I just looked for that scene on YouTube as well and couldn't find it, but I do think this scene is a pretty good one with him as well.
This is interesting. He once worked as a bodyguard for Howard Hughes and his acting career started as a stuntman.
Anthony Wilford Brimley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 27, 1934.[2][3]His father was a real estate broker.[4] Prior to his career in acting, he dropped out of high school to join the Marines, serving in the Aleutian Islands for three years. He also worked as a bodyguard for businessman Howard Hughes,[5] as well as a ranch hand, wrangler, and blacksmith.[3] He then began shoeing horses for film and television. At the behest of his close friend and fellow actor, Robert Duvall, he began acting in the 1960s as a riding extra and stunt man in Westerns.[6] In 1979, he told the Los Angeles Times that the most he ever earned in a year as an actor was $20,000.[7] He had no formal training as an actor, and his first experience in acting in front of a live audience was at the Los Angeles Actors' Theater.[8]
Anthony Wilford Brimley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 27, 1934.[2][3]His father was a real estate broker.[4] Prior to his career in acting, he dropped out of high school to join the Marines, serving in the Aleutian Islands for three years. He also worked as a bodyguard for businessman Howard Hughes,[5] as well as a ranch hand, wrangler, and blacksmith.[3] He then began shoeing horses for film and television. At the behest of his close friend and fellow actor, Robert Duvall, he began acting in the 1960s as a riding extra and stunt man in Westerns.[6] In 1979, he told the Los Angeles Times that the most he ever earned in a year as an actor was $20,000.[7] He had no formal training as an actor, and his first experience in acting in front of a live audience was at the Los Angeles Actors' Theater.[8]
- Rock Mullaney : May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the warm sun shine on your face. May the soft rain fall on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hands.
Joe Gill : And may you be three days in heaven before the Devil knows you're dead.
Kidneys get severely damaged when someone has diabetes. It’s ultimately what gets them unfortunately if they have it bad and long enough.
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.
When I am describing somebody with that mustache I say "They went the full David Crosby."
Brimley without a stach is like a bare lipped Sam Elliott.
Think Colm Meany may be his love child.
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 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.
