Wilford Brimley

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

With varied rugged experiences ranging from blacksmith to horse trainer, portly, handlebar-mustached Wilford Brimley entered films in the 1960s as a cowboy stunt man. Save for a few billed appearances on TV cowboy series like Gunsmoke, Brimley worked primarily in supporting roles until finally achieving star status in the 1980s via his gruff, fatherly roles in such films as The Thing (1981), Hotel New Hampshire (1984), The Natural (1984) and Cocoon (1986). On television, Wilford Brimley starred in the 1980s family dramedy Our House. In addition to his film and television work, Brimley worked for a time as the commercial spokesperson for the Quaker Oats company.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet The Natural: The Best There Ever Was Actor — 2016
No Score Yet Timber the Treasure Dog Actor — 2015
No Score Yet Masque Maskmaker — 2012
12% Did You Hear About the Morgans? Earl Granger $29.6M 2009
No Score Yet The Path of the Wind Harry — 2009
71% Pitcher And The Pin-Up (Road Home) Actor — 2005
No Score Yet Cockfight Governor — 2002
No Score Yet The Round and Round Governor — 2002
No Score Yet Resurrection Mary Actor — 2002
71% Brigham City Stu — 2001
No Score Yet Golden Dreams: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple Scraggs — 2001
40% Crossfire Trail Joe Gill — 2001
No Score Yet Summer of the Monkeys Grandpa Sam Ferrans — 1998
No Score Yet Progeny Dr. David Wetherly — 1998
No Score Yet Capítulo Perfecto Actor — 1998
71% In & Out Frank Brackett — 1997
47% My Fellow Americans Joe Hollis — 1996
69% Last of the Dogmen Narrator — 1995
No Score Yet Mutant Species Devro — 1995
No Score Yet Heaven Sent Security Guard — 1995
No Score Yet The Good Old Boys C.C. Tarpley — 1995
No Score Yet Tom Clancy's 'Op Center' Admiral Troy Davis — 1995
75% The Firm William Devasher — 1993
55% Hard Target Uncle Douvee — 1993
No Score Yet Where the Red Fern Grows: Part Two Grandpa — 1992
No Score Yet Blood River U.S. Marshal Winston Patrick Culler — 1991
No Score Yet Eternity Eric — 1990
No Score Yet Billy The Kid (Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid) Gov. Lew Wallace — 1989
33% Cocoon: The Return Ben Luckett — 1988
60% End of the Line Will Haney — 1987
No Score Yet American Justice Sheriff Mitchell — 1986
No Score Yet Act of Vengeance Tony Boyle W.A. "Tony" Boyle — 1986
No Score Yet Thompson's Last Run Actor — 1986
41% Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins Harold Smith — 1985
79% Cocoon Ben Luckett — 1985
No Score Yet Ewoks: The Battle for Endor Noa — 1985
No Score Yet Murder in Space Dr. Andrew McCallister — 1985
100% Country Otis — 1984
82% The Natural Pop Fisher — 1984
71% The Hotel New Hampshire Iowa Bob — 1984
36% Harry & Son Tom — 1984
67% The Stone Boy George Jansen — 1984
No Score Yet Tough Enough Bill Long — 1983
No Score Yet High Road to China Bradley Tozer — 1983
33% 10 to Midnight Capt. Malone — 1983
83% Tender Mercies Harry — 1983
84% The Thing Dr. Blair — 1982
No Score Yet Death Valley The Sheriff — 1982
81% Absence Of Malice Wells — 1981
No Score Yet Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill Actor — 1981
No Score Yet Borderline Scooter Jackson — 1980
75% Brubaker Rogers — 1980
No Score Yet Roughnecks Willie Clayton — 1980
No Score Yet Rodeo Girl Actor — 1980
64% The Electric Horseman Farmer — 1979
85% The China Syndrome Ted Spindler — 1979
No Score Yet The Wild, Wild West Revisited Grover Cleveland — 1979

TV

Credit
No Score Yet The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
2005-2014 		Guest 2013
88% Seinfeld
1989-1998 		Postmaster General Henry Atkins 1997
No Score Yet Walker, Texas Ranger
1993-2001 		1995
91% Homicide: Life on the Street
1993-1999 		Harry Prentice 1994
No Score Yet The Waltons
1972-1981 		Horace Horace Brimley 1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
63% The Boys of Twilight
1992 		Dep. Bill Huntoon

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?