Wilford Brimley
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.753 |
| Birthday | 1934-09-27 |
| Place of Birth | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| Also Known As | Anthony Wilford Brimley, A. Wilford Brimley, Wilford A. Brimley, |
1979
The China Syndrome
7.2/449
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. W...
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The China Syndrome
1982
The Thing
8.065/6944
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years....
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The Thing
1985
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
6.261/251
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
1985
Cocoon
6.622/1263
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
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Cocoon
1985
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
5.38/296
The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escap...
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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
1993
Hard Target
6.408/1184
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealt...
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Hard Target
1997
In & Out
6.476/684
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
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In & Out
1980
Roughnecks
6/1
Ida McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. A contentious crew of wildcatters arrives, including a stalwart drill...
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Roughnecks
1992
Where The Red Fern Grows Part 2
5.9/8
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Where The Red Fern Grows Part 2
1979
The Electric Horseman
6.049/144
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perfor...
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The Electric Horseman
1988
Cocoon: The Return
6.514/980
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows...
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Cocoon: The Return
1984
The Natural
6.884/581
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the lea...
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The Natural
1980
Borderline
5.9/44
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of...
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Borderline
2001
Brigham City
6.4/20
Wes Clayton is a lawman and a bishop in a Mormon community called Brigham. The town is shaken when a woman from California is found murdered. Clayton...
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Brigham City
2001
Crossfire Trail
6.4/37
Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch....
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Crossfire Trail
1984
Country
6.4/31
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Country
1983
Tender Mercies
6.653/131
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his...
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Tender Mercies
1993
The Firm
6.7/1979
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...
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The Firm
1998
A Place to Grow
8/2
Following his brother's death, a musician returns home to the farm. He intends to sell it, but over the course of his visit, develops an appreciation...
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A Place to Grow
1983
Tough Enough
5.1/7
An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some...
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Tough Enough
1995
OP Center
6/11
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On h...
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OP Center
1983
10 to Midnight
6.226/199
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while...
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10 to Midnight
1996
My Fellow Americans
6.007/153
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the c...
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My Fellow Americans
1987
End of the Line
5.5/12
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
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End of the Line
1981
Absence of Malice
6.564/204
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was...
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Absence of Malice
1983
High Road to China
5.8/85
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a...
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High Road to China
1982
Death Valley
5.2/43
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
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Death Valley
1984
Harry & Son
5.9/61
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive...
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Harry & Son
1998
Progeny
4.7/37
An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
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Progeny
1998
Summer of the Monkeys
5.8/11
One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
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Summer of the Monkeys
1995
Mutant Species
4.3/9
A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a remote wooded area. An army team is sent to recover...
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Mutant Species
1984
The Stone Boy
6.8/7
12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene live with their family on a farm in Montana. In an accident, Eugene is killed by Arnol...
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The Stone Boy
1980
Rodeo Girl
10/1
Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a housewife. So she becomes an aspiring rodeo rider...
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Rodeo Girl
1994
Heaven Sent
4.5/7
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in h...
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Heaven Sent
1998
Lunker Lake
0/0
A puppet-starring fish story.
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Lunker Lake
1990
Eternity
4/7
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Eternity
1986
Thompson's Last Run
0/0
A hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life sentence as a habitual criminal is freed at gunpo...
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Thompson's Last Run
1986
Shadows on the Wall
0/0
A reporter becomes the target of a murderer when he starts investigating a fifty-year-old murder/suicide case.
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Shadows on the Wall
1985
Murder in Space
4.8/5
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing t...
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Murder in Space
1986
Act of Vengeance
5.9/15
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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Act of Vengeance
1979
The Wild Wild West Revisited
5.1/13
The intrepid team of Old West government intelligence agents are brought out of retirement after 10 years to hunt down a cunning new adversary, the so...
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The Wild Wild West Revisited
2016
Timber the Treasure Dog
6/9
A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.
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Timber the Treasure Dog
2001
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
5.3/10
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
2000
Comanche
0/0
The heart warming true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn... the horse named Comanche.
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Comanche
1989
Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid
6.9/14
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
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Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid
1995
The Good Old Boys
6.682/11
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
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The Good Old Boys
1991
Blood River
4.5/4
Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their...
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Blood River
2019
I Believe
7.6/138
A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.
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I Believe
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
5.602/113
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The Hotel New Hampshire
2002
The Round and Round
2/1
A state proposes a law banning cock fights.
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The Round and Round
1971
Lawman
6.6/109
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st...
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Lawman
1980
Amber Waves
8.5/2
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but b...
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Amber Waves
2009
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
5.4/960
New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compar...
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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
1986
Jackals
7/1
Cops in a small town near the Mexican border find themselves caught up in a scheme that smuggles illegal aliens into the country.
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Jackals
1980
Brubaker
7.053/455
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Brubaker
1995
Last of the Dogmen
6.7/90
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female...
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Last of the Dogmen
1981
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
5.8/2
The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after t...
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Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
1969
True Grit
7.364/760
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marsha...
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True Grit
2003
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
6.2/7
Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life-long friends. During their teen years, they cling to each...
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Pitcher and the Pin-Up
1998
All My Friends Are Cowboys
0/0
All My Friends Are Cowboys is a musical play based on the formative years of Kelly C. Crabb, who worked on a livestock farm in Utah before becoming an...
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All My Friends Are Cowboys
2002
Resurrection Mary
0/0
Resurrection is a small, unassuming rural town in Kentucky. It is a place known only for one peculiar attribute: a string of mysterious disappearances...
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