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Wilford Brimley has died
- thesuperbigfrog 6y agoThe infamous Liberty Medical commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQaMaBxwRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQaMaBxwRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQy8_nYH-qM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQy8_nYH-qM
- beenBoutIT 6y agoRemix of Wilford's Liberty Medical commercial: https://youtu.be/2hNu1I9r_1A https://youtu.be/2hNu1I9r_1A
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoHearing his name more brings to mind for me the Quaker Oatmeal commercials he did in the '80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLXnkbfEuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLXnkbfEuo
- elliotlarson 6y agoI realize he had bigger, more mainstream roles that he'll be remembered for. But the most iconic for me was, Blair, in The Thing.
- nytesky 6y agoHmm, so he was also the brutal fixer in 'The Firm'. Any other dark roles, rather than his well known grandfather image?
- defen 6y agoPostmaster General role in Seinfeld, which parodied his role in Absence of Malice. The Seinfeld role was played for laughs but there was a little bit of a dark edge to it, in a funny way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On3cQ0sPvSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On3cQ0sPvSY (appearance about 1:17 in)
- fredsanford 6y agohttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089901/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089901/ Sort of a dark role here as a "spy master"
- eplanit 6y agoHe was perfectly cast, and perfectly played, his role as a nuclear power plant technician in The China Syndrome.
- jakebasile 6y agoHe performs my favorite "crazed destruction" scene in that movie. "Nobody gets in or out of here! NOBODY! You guys think I'm crazy?! Well, that's fine! Most of you don't know what's going on around here, but I'm damn well sure some of you do! You think that thing wanted to be an animal?! No dog's gonna make it a thousand miles to the coast! You don't understand! That thing wanted to be US! A cell gets out, and it'll imitate everything on the face of the Earth! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT!"
- controversy 6y agoHe was only 85? Wow. The dude looked 85 in the 90s.
- aaronbrethorst 6y agoPour one out for Wilford. Plus we'll need a new Brimley Line. https://twitter.com/BrimleyLine https://twitter.com/BrimleyLine
- fortran77 6y ago"dia-beetus"
- bigmattystyles 6y agoI love how he was only 49 in cocoon. Retired a living in a retirement community. At 49! Tom Cruise is older now.
- modmans2nd 6y agoThat shows you how decrepit people were at that age back in the day.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoFor a similar experience, watch Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (1969). Philip Baker Hall was only thirty-seven when he acted in that film, but he already looks like the old man whom people would recognize from the more acclaimed roles he started getting in his fifties and sixties.
- KineticLensman 6y agoAnother example of an actor who routinely played much older characters is Clive Dunn, who most notably at age 48 played the elderly Lance Corporal Jones in the UK sitcom Dad's Army [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Dunn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Dunn
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoAlso Abe Vigoda. Who is dead now.
- tenken 6y agoBest in Hard Target with Van Damme.
- strictnein 6y agoAmusingly I'm watching this right now. The whole movie is just awful, but in that wonderful awfulness of the mid 90s, where slow, repetitive pans of Van Damme's face seemed "cool". I just love it. Directed by John Woo, with Jean Claude Van Damme doing his strange Cajun(?) accent, and Lance Henriksen looking like he just stepped off the set of Aliens.
- maxerickson 6y agoJCVD is "The muscles from Brussels". He's Belgian.
- strictnein 6y agoOh I know, but I think they were trying to get him to do some sort of Cajun accent for the movie and it just turned out really strangely, in a good way.
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- artificial 6y agoHere’s his last tweet from yesterday. https://twitter.com/realwilfordb/status/1289330498867793925?s=21 https://twitter.com/realwilfordb/status/1289330498867793925?...
- modmans2nd 6y agoGFC....only 85? That puts him in his 50’s when he played an old person in Cacoon..... and he looked old AF.
- williadc 6y agoYou may find this Twitter account of interest https://mobile.twitter.com/BrimleyLine https://mobile.twitter.com/BrimleyLine
- mrfusion 6y agoIt’s a huge mystery. People used to visibly age faster? My grandfather looked 40 in his 20s.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoHe was a lot younger than he looked. The article says he started out playing fathers of actors 25 years older than himself
- xtiansimon 6y ago. I recalled immediately this interview with Ron Howard on the Director’s Cut podcast. The segment starts around 20:30 to 34:00 with a discussion of directing stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, and Brian Dennehy in Cocoon (1985) and their different acting styles—particularly Don and Wilford. God speed. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-directors-cut-a-dga-podcast/id1067471691?i=1000476253335 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-directors-cut-a-dg...
- ykevinator 6y agoHe played the postmaster general in seinfeld, very funny