Wilford Brimley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station...
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Hard Target
as Uncle DouveeWhen a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon...
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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is...
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The Natural
as Pop FisherAn unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to...
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True Grit
as Minor Role (uncredited)The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves...
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In & Out
as Frank BrackettA midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at...
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Cocoon
as Benjamin LuckettWhen a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find...
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Absence of Malice
as James J. WellsMegan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected...
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Lawman
as Marc CormanWhile passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their...
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10 to Midnight
as Clem MaloneWarren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his...
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The China Syndrome
as Ted SpindlerWhile doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly...
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I Believe
as PastorA 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.
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The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village,...
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
as Harold SmithAn officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the...
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Cocoon: The Return
as Ben LuckettThe reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they...
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Brubaker
as Rogers - Prison BoardThe new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after...
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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
as Earl GrangerNew Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling...
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Tender Mercies
as HarryAlchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The...
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The Hotel New Hampshire
as Iowa BobA New Englander and his oddball family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their...
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Crossfire Trail
as Joe GillRafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man...
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Last of the Dogmen
as Narrator (uncredited)A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he...
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High Road to China
as Bradley TozerA biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing...
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My Fellow Americans
as Joe HollisThey used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former...
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Borderline
as Scooter JacksonJeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has...
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The Electric Horseman
as FarmerA former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast...
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Death Valley
as The SheriffA divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death...
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Terror in the Aisles
as Dr. Blair (archive footage) (uncredited)A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all...
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Progeny
as Dr. David WetherlyAn unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
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Harry and Son
as Tom KeachWidower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of...
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Eternity
as King / EricTV producer James has an extremely vivid dream, in which he is a prince struggling to keep the...
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Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid
as Gov. Lew WallaceGore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network...
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Act of Vengeance
as Tony BoyleIn 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union,...
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The Good Old Boys
as C.C. TarpleyAn aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of...
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Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
as Wally HaskellThe first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the...
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Rodeo Girl
as Bingo GibbsSammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home...
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End of the Line
as Will HaneyWhen the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to...
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The Stone Boy
as George Jansen12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene live with their family on a farm...
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
as Deputy Sheriff Ambrose ScraggsThe adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
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Timber the Treasure Dog
as Hawk JonesA boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and...
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Tough Enough
as Bill LongAn aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities,...
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Heaven Sent
as Security GuardEddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty...
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Murder in Space
as Dr. Andrew McCallisterSet in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return...
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The Wild Wild West Revisited
as President Grover ClevelandThe intrepid team of Old West government intelligence agents are brought out of retirement after...
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Thompson's Last Run
as Red HainesA hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a...
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OP Center
as Adm. Troy DavisPaul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide...
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Blood River
as U.S. Marshal Winston Patrick CullerJimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he...
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Summer of the Monkeys
as Grandpa Sam FerransOne summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
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Where The Red Fern Grows Part 2
as Grandpa WillAn embittered WWII veteran returns to his grandfather's home in the Louisiana woods. The old man...
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Jackals
as Sheriff MitchellCops in a small town near the Mexican border find themselves caught up in a scheme that smuggles...
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Amber Waves
as Pete AlbertsA drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over...
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Country
as OtisJewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial...
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Pitcher and the Pin-Up
as Coach WeaverGrowing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become...
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Roughnecks
as Willie ClaytonIda McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. A contentious...
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Mutant Species
as DevroA rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in...
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Brigham City
as StuWes Clayton is a lawman and a bishop in a Mormon community called Brigham. The town is shaken...
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The Round and Round
as GovernorA state proposes a law banning cock fights.
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Comanche
as uncreditedThe heart warming true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn... the...
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Shadows on the Wall
as Floyd BuckmanA reporter becomes the target of a murderer when he starts investigating a fifty-year-old...
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A Place to Grow
as JakeFollowing his brother's death, a musician returns home to the farm. He intends to sell it, but...
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All My Friends Are Cowboys
as CharlieAll My Friends Are Cowboys is a musical play based on the formative years of Kelly C. Crabb, who...
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Homicide: Life on the Street
as Harry 'The Admiral' PrenticeAn American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...
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Walker, Texas Ranger
as Burt MuellerModern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in...
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Seinfeld
as Postmaster General Henry AtkinsA stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in...
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How the West Was Won
as uncreditedThe Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer...
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How the West Was Won
as Sheriff DanielsThe Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer...
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The Waltons
as uncreditedThe Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World...
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The Waltons
as Horace BrimleyThe Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World...
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The Oregon Trail
as uncreditedThe Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the...
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Our House
as Gus WitherspoonOur House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from...
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The Awakening Land
as Jude McWhirterA lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries,...
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OP Center
as Adm. Troy DavisPaul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide...
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Kung Fu
as uncreditedThe adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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