Wilford Brimley
Highest Rated: 100% Country (1984)
Lowest Rated: 12% Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
Birthday: Sep 27, 1934
Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
The actor of choice to play gruff, but lovable grandfathers, old salts and dispensers of sage advice in the 1980s, Wilford Brimley was a former real-life ranch hand who worked his way up the Hollywood food chain from stunt rider and extra to popular character actor and television pitchman. On the advice of friend Robert Duvall, Brimley set his course down the acting path and earned his big break in "The China Syndrome" (1979). By the mid-1980s, Brimley was adding old-fashioned grit and homespun charm to high-profile pictures like "The Natural" (1984), "Cocoon" (1985) and "The Firm" (1993), as well as on the primetime series "Our House" (NBC, 1986-88). His profile lessened in subsequent years, though his avuncular presence was well used in a series of ads for Quaker Oats and the Liberty Medical supply company, keeping fresh his distinctly whiskered visage to audiences.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Believe | Pastor (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Timber the Treasure Dog | Hawk Jones (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Natural: The Best There Ever Was |
Pop Fisher / |
- | 2015 |
| 12% | 27% | Did You Hear About the Morgans? | Earl (Character) | $29.6M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Path of the Wind | Harry Caldwell (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 71% | 62% | The Road Home | Coach Weaver (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Round and Round | Governor (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Deputy Sheriff Ambrose Scraggs (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 40% | 77% | Louis L'Amour's Crossfire Trail | Joe Gill (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 71% | 81% | Brigham City | Stu (Character) | $851.1K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Progeny | Dr. David Wetherly (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Summer of the Monkeys | Grandpa Sam Ferrans (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 71% | 52% | In & Out | Frank Brackett (Character) | $63.9M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chapter Perfect | Chief Hawkins (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 47% | 64% | My Fellow Americans | Joe Hollis (Character) | $22.3M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Good Old Boys | C.C. Tarpley (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | A Place to Grow | Jake (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 8% | Mutant Species | Devro (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Heaven Sent | Al (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger | Burt Mueller (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 57% | 49% | Hard Target | Uncle Douvee (Character) | $31.5M | 1993 |
| 75% | 64% | The Firm | William Devasher (Character) | $157M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where the Red Fern Grows, Part II | Grandpa Will (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Blood River | U.S. Marshal Winston Patrick Culler (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Eternity |
King/ |
- | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Billy the Kid | Gov. Lew Wallace (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 60% | 41% | End of the Line | Will Haney (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 33% | 35% | Cocoon: The Return | Benjamin "Ben" Luckett (Character) | $18.5M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thompson's Last Run | Red Haines (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadows on the Wall | Floyd Buckman (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | American Justice | Sheriff Mitchell (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Act of Vengeance | Tony Boyle (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | Noa (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 39% | 58% | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Harold Smith (Character) | $14.4M | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Murder in Space | Dr. Andrew McCallister (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 79% | 60% | Cocoon | Ben Luckett (Character) | $75.9M | 1985 |
| 67% | 42% | The Stone Boy | George Jansen (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 82% | 88% | The Natural | Pop Fisher (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 100% | 69% | Country | Otis (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 36% | 35% | Harry and Son | Tom Keach (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 84% | 82% | Tender Mercies | Harry (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Tough Enough | Bill Long (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 40% | 50% | 10 to Midnight | Captain Malone (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | High Road to China | Bradley Tozer (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Death Valley | Sheriff (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 85% | 92% | The Thing | Dr. Blair (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Big Black Pill | Wally Haskell (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 81% | 63% | Absence of Malice | Wells (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rodeo Girl | Bingo Gibbs (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Borderline | Scooter Jackson (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 86% | 81% | The China Syndrome | Ted Spindler (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 64% | 57% | The Electric Horseman | Farmer (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Oregon Trail | Joseph Burke (Character) | - | 1975 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Music Performer | 2013 |
| 88% | 94% | Seinfeld | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | OP Center | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 91% | No Score Yet | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our House | Gus Witherspoon (Character) | 1986-1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974-1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
QUOTES FROM Wilford Brimley CHARACTERS
Pop Fisher says: It's the right thing to do.
Bump Bailey says: [after failing to catch a fly ball] I lost it in the sun.
Pop Fisher says: [looks up at the cloudy sky] Blinding.
Pop Fisher says: People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!
Pop Fisher says: Batting practice tomorrow, be there!
Roy Hobbs says: I have been. Every day.
Pop Fisher says: C'mon Hobbs, knock the cover off the ball!
Blair says: You see, what we're talking about here is an organism that imitates other life forms, and imitates them perfectly. When this Thing attacked our dogs, it tried to digest them. Absorb them. And in the process, shape its own cells to imitate them. This, for instance, that's not dog. That's imitation. We got to it before it had time to finish.
Norris says: Finish what?
Blair says: Finish imitating these dogs.
Ben Luckett says: Ben Luckett: [Stepping into the freezing cold pool] Whoa, that'll make your ol' ball sack shrivel up.
Ben Luckett says: [stepping into the freezing cold pool] Whoa, that'll make your ol' ball sack shrivel up.
Blair says: A Cell gets out, and it will IMITATE EVERYTHING on the face of the EARTH! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT!
Childs says: Hey, take it easy, come on, Blair, you don't want to hurt nobody.
Blair says: I'LL KILL YOU!
Blair says: 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 dogs make it a thousand miles through the cold! No, you don't understand! That thing wanted to be US!
Blair says: A cell gets out, and it will IMITATE EVERYTHING on the face of the EARTH! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT!
Childs says: Hey, take it easy, come on, Blair, you don't want to hurt nobody.
Blair says: I'LL KILL YOU!
MacReady says: How you doing', old boy?
MacReady says: How you doing old boy?
Blair says: I don't know who to trust.
MacReady says: I know what you mean, Blair. Trust's a tough thing to come by these days. Tell you what - Why don't you just trust in the Lord?
MacReady says: I know what you mean, Blair. Trust's a tough thing to come by these days. Tell you what. Why don't you just trust in the Lord?