Well, crap. RIP Wilford Brimley

[2muchcoffeeman]

Eighty-five.

Wilford Brimley, Face of Quaker Oats & Diabetes Campaigns, Dead at 85

 

[swingline]

Eat yer ******* oatmeal.

Loved him in The Thing.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

One of those who I thought had died years ago. Great character actor. Loved him in The Natural.

RIP

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

He looked 85 in Cocoon. He was just over half that.

 

[Della9250]

https://twitter.com/BrimleyLine

 

[bigpern23]

He looked 85 in Cocoon. He was just over half that.

Fun Fact: Tom Cruise was the same age when he filmed Mission Impossible: Fallout as Brimley was when he filmed Cocoon: The Return.

 

[wicked]

Diabeetus is one of my favorite handles in SJ history.

RIP.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Do you like golf, Mr Kramer?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

I hope it's not in bad taste to post this, but it was one of the funniest SNL sketches I've ever seen.

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/liberty-medical/n11510

 

[Slacker]

"Absence of Malice."

Brimley stole the show in his scene.

 

[Starman]

"You ain't no presidential appointee, Elliot. The one who hired you is me. You got thirty days."

 

[Slacker]

"You ain't no presidential appointee, Elliot. The one who hired you is me. You got thirty days."

That's the one. The peak of his performance there.

 

[Starman]

That's the one. The peak of his performance there.

 

[Starman]

Tom Cruise definitely gave him what-for at the end of "The Firm."

 

[DanOregon]

First noticed him in The Electric Horseman - which also featured "alum" John Saxon in addition to the still breathing Redford, Fonda and Willie Nelson. Underrated movie. Features perhaps the greatest throwaway line of all time by Nelson.
But China Syndrome, The Thing..one of those actors who you saw on screen an instantly "knew" the character (or at least assumed, which made his role in The Firm so great. "The kind of intimate acts, oral and whatnot..."
RIP

 

[mpcincal]

I looked up "The Natural." Brimley was 49 years old when that movie came out. Man, throughout his whole career he looked like he was at least in his 60s. Nonetheless, RIP to a top-notch actor.

 

[DanOregon]

Think about Robert Duvall - losing his hair early (before he made it big) was probably the best thing for his career. See also Ed Harris.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I looked up "The Natural." Brimley was 49 years old when that movie came out. Man, throughout his whole career he looked like he was at least in his 60s. Nonetheless, RIP to a top-notch actor.

That is unbelievable to me. I would have guessed he was in his 60s then, but you're right, the math didn't add up. I had never thought about his age before this.

BTW, really good job on the thread title. I could hear Brimley's voice in my head saying "oh crap."

RIP.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

He also was the top star for a couple of seasons on Our House, an NBC show in the mid-80s in which he played a grandfather who took in his grandkids and daughter-in-law.

He was 53 when the series started.

 

[Justin_Rice]

Forever changed the way we all say Die-A-Bee-Tus.