Posted on 08/01/2020 10:08:50 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from stunt performer to starring roles in films such as “Cocoon” and “The Natural,” has died. He was 85.
Brimley’s manager Lynda Bensky said the actor died Saturday morning in a Utah hospital. He was on dialysis and had several medical ailments, she said.
The mustached Brimley was a familiar face for a number of roles, often playing gruff characters like his grizzled baseball manager in “The Natural.”
Brimley’s best-known work was in “Cocoon,” in which he was part of a group of seniors who discover an alien pod that rejuvenates them. The 1985 Ron Howard film won two Oscars, including a supporting actor honor for Don Ameche.
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great in everything but my personal favorite was in the TV movie I believe was called Act of Vengeance , where he played utterly corrupt and vicious Tony Boyle who has Jock Yablonski (Charles Bronson) murdered over the struggle for leadership of the United Mine Workers Union. NOT a great movie, but also my favorite Bronson performance.
85???
He seemed to been around much much longer
Cocoon came out in 1985, so if he is 85 now he would have been 50 then. 50 seems young to be playing a senor citizen??
I thought he was 85 in 1993
https://youtu.be/pCYql-JwVso
I was thinking the same. He always looked old as dirt to me.
I still remember him for his part in Absence Without Malice when he took over a room with such established actors as Paul Newman and Sally Field. That brief sequence was one of the finest acting jobs I ever saw.
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One of the great lines in movie history was said by Brimley in the movie Absence of Malice with Paul Newman & Sally Field. Toward the end of the movie Brimley, who plays an Assistant Attorney General and calls all of the principal players in a bribery/press leaking/political corruption case into a conference room and tells everyone that at the end of the day “we’ll all know what in the good Christ (“excuse me Angie”) is going on around here and I am going to have someone’s ass in my briefcase!” There were several other great quotes from that conference room scene, but that one had me on the floor. And boy did I use that line in a few choice business meetings with people that thought they could lie, cheat, steal, etc. to get ahead at the expense of other people and the company’s brand. Great actor who gave some incredible performances in numerous supporting roles.
Was it Diabeetus?
He was really good in The Firm
He was the “Diabeetus” guy. Bummer.
He was the face of evil in “The Firm”, as he was the mob enforcer Bill Devasher/security director for Bendini, Lambert and Locke.
Absence of Malice....
Is that the movie where Paul Newman is an honest business man and all around good guy but a newspaper reporter publishes lies and half truths about him. He sues the paper and reporter and the newspapers defence is there was an absence of Malice in their articles?
Burt Mustin had a long career playing old guys on tv and films:
It does appear he was in his 70s even when he appeared on Leave it to Beaver in the 1950s.
“The Thing” with Kurt Russell.
Yep. Liked The Firm.
Very Funny!
Walter Brennan also played geezers before he became one.
“40 is the old age of youth and 50 is the youth old age’’- Victor Hugo.
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