Wilford Brimley

Wilford Brimley

Birthday: 1934-09-27

Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Biography: Anthony Wilford Brimley (September 27, 1934 – August 1, 2020) was an American actor and singer. After serving in the Marines and taking on a variety of odd jobs, he became an extra for Western films, and in little more than a decade he had established himself as a character actor in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), and The Natural (1984). Brimley was the longtime face of television advertisements for the Quaker Oats Company. He also promoted diabetes education and appeared in related commercials for Liberty Medical.

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The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells...

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The Thing
The Thing

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its...

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S...

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Cocoon
Cocoon

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves en...

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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing...

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Hard Target
Hard Target

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discove...

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In & Out
In & Out

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the...

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Roughnecks
Roughnecks

Ida McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. A contentious crew ...

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Where The Red Fern Grows Part 2
Where The Red Fern Grows Part 2

An embittered WWII veteran returns to his grandfather's home in the Louisiana woods. The old man hel...

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The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in...

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Cocoon: The Return
Cocoon: The Return

The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all d...

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The Natural
The Natural

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take ...

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Borderline
Borderline

Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has jus...

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Brigham City
Brigham City

Wes Clayton is a lawman and a bishop in a Mormon community called Brigham. The town is shaken when a...

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Crossfire Trail
Crossfire Trail

Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that h...

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Country
Country

Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus...

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Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies

Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friend...

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The Firm
The Firm

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa...

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A Place to Grow
A Place to Grow

Following his brother's death, a musician returns home to the farm. He intends to sell it, but over ...

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Tough Enough
Tough Enough

An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters...

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OP Center
OP Center

Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variet...

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10 to Midnight
10 to Midnight

Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. ...

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My Fellow Americans
My Fellow Americans

They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents ...

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End of the Line
End of the Line

When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate he...

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Absence of Malice
Absence of Malice

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected rack...

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High Road to China
High Road to China

A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing fathe...

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Death Valley
Death Valley

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley a...

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Harry & Son
Harry & Son

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working ...

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Progeny
Progeny

An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population....

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Summer of the Monkeys
Summer of the Monkeys

One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart....

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Mutant Species
Mutant Species

A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a re...

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The Stone Boy
The Stone Boy

12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene live with their family on a farm in ...

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Rodeo Girl
Rodeo Girl

Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a ...

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Heaven Sent
Heaven Sent

Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft an...

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Lunker Lake
Lunker Lake

A puppet-starring fish story....

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Eternity
Eternity

TV producer James has an extremely vivid dream, in which he is a prince struggling to keep the kingd...

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Thompson's Last Run
Thompson's Last Run

A hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life...

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Shadows on the Wall
Shadows on the Wall

A reporter becomes the target of a murderer when he starts investigating a fifty-year-old murder/sui...

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Murder in Space
Murder in Space

Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return tri...

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Act of Vengeance
Act of Vengeance

In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and be...

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The Wild Wild West Revisited
The Wild Wild West Revisited

The intrepid team of Old West government intelligence agents are brought out of retirement after 10 ...

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Timber the Treasure Dog
Timber the Treasure Dog

A local villain is buying up all the ranches where 12 year old Mickey and his family live, and unles...

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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s....

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Comanche
Comanche

The heart warming true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn... the horse...

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Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid

Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Tel...

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The Good Old Boys
The Good Old Boys

An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintainin...

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Blood River
Blood River

Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he foun...

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I Believe
I Believe

A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way....

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The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in ...

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The Round and Round
The Round and Round

A state proposes a law banning cock fights....

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Lawman
Lawman

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their cele...

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Amber Waves
Amber Waves

A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his...

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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Did You Hear About the Morgans?

New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling aro...

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Jackals
Jackals

Cops in a small town near the Mexican border find themselves caught up in a scheme that smuggles ill...

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Brubaker
Brubaker

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

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Last of the Dogmen
Last of the Dogmen

A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he see...

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Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill

The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerun...

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True Grit
True Grit

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging h...

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Pitcher and the Pin-Up
Pitcher and the Pin-Up

Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life-long fr...

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All My Friends Are Cowboys
All My Friends Are Cowboys

All My Friends Are Cowboys is a musical play based on the formative years of Kelly C. Crabb, who wor...

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Resurrection Mary
Resurrection Mary

Resurrection is a small, unassuming rural town in Kentucky. It is a place known only for one peculia...

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The Making of Comanche
The Making of Comanche

Welcome to the behind-the-scenes journey of "Comanche," the true story of the only U.S. survivor of ...

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The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was

An average baseball film in the making comes out of seemingly nowhere to become one of the best spor...

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