Wilford Brimley

Anthony Wilford Brimley was born in Salt Lake City on September 27, 1934,{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=22382&apid=0 |title=Wilford Brimley biography |access-date=June 22, 2009 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} the son of Lola (née Nelson) and real estate broker Wilford Brimley.{{Cite web|date=August 6, 2020|title=Anthony Wilford Brimley|url=https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/anthony-wilford-brimley,26588|access-date=July 31, 2021|website=Powell Tribune|language=en|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403121331/https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/anthony-wilford-brimley,26588|url-status=live}} His paternal grandfather was an Englishman from Wigan, while his paternal grandmother's parents were a Scottish couple from Glasgow. His mother was half Danish and also had English, German, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry.{{cite news |last1=Schreger |first1=Charles |title=Utah Cowboy—A Star is Born? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56561253/brimley-la-times-1979-1/ |access-date=August 2, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=December 17, 1979 |pages=31 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005200757/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56561253/brimley-la-times-1979-1/ |url-status=live}} Prior to a career in acting, he dropped out of high school at age 14 and worked as a cowboy in Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada.

Brimley joined the Marines in 1953 and served in the Aleutian Islands for three years.{{cite web |last=Joseph |first=Joslin |title=Marine Veteran and Renowned Actor Wilford Brimley Dies |website=Military.com |date=August 3, 2020 |url=https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2020/08/03/marine-veteran-and-renowned-actor-wilford-brimley-dies.html |access-date=April 25, 2023 |archive-date=April 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425065734/https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2020/08/03/marine-veteran-and-renowned-actor-wilford-brimley-dies.html |url-status=live}} He also worked as a bodyguard for businessman Howard Hughes{{cite news|first=Lawrence|last=Tom|url=http://www.powelltribune.com/news/item/12188-%E2%80%98just-a-feller%E2%80%99-actor-wilford-brimley-reflects-on-long-career-stars-he%E2%80%99s-known-and-the-music-he-loves-to-sing|title='Just a feller,' Actor Wilford Brimley reflects on long career, stars he's known and the music he loves to sing|work=Powell Tribune|date=March 20, 2014|access-date=May 26, 2015|quote=Of course, Brimley has been around a lot of famous people. He was a bodyguard for reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, although he doesn't care to discuss that very much. "He was a good guy," he said, adding that Hughes paid him well. Hughes preferred to hire members of the Church of Latter-day Saints as aides and staffers, and Brimley himself is a member of the LDS church|archive-date=May 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527001318/http://www.powelltribune.com/news/item/12188-%E2%80%98just-a-feller%E2%80%99-actor-wilford-brimley-reflects-on-long-career-stars-he%E2%80%99s-known-and-the-music-he-loves-to-sing|url-status=live}} as well as a ranch hand, wrangler, and blacksmith. He then began shoeing horses for film and television. At the behest of his close friend and fellow actor Robert Duvall, he began acting in the 1960s as a riding extra and stunt man in westerns.{{cite web| url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800012696/bio| title=Wilford Brimley Biography| publisher=Yahoo! Movies| access-date=March 2, 2014| archive-date=June 4, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604014547/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800012696/bio| url-status=live}} In 1979, he told the Los Angeles Times that the most he ever earned in a year as an actor was $20,000. He had no formal training as an actor, and his first experience in acting in front of a live audience was in a theater group at the Los Angeles Actors' Theater.{{cite news |last1=Schreger |first1=Charles |title=Utah Cowboy—A Star is Born? (continuation) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56561183/brimley-la-times-1979-2/ |access-date=August 2, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=December 17, 1979 |pages=34 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005124126/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56561183/brimley-la-times-1979-2/ |url-status=live}}

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Brimley's onscreen breakthrough came when he was cast in the popular 1970s television series The Waltons as Walton's Mountain resident and blacksmith Horace Brimley; he made seven appearances between 1974 and 1977.

His first credited feature film performance was in The China Syndrome (1979) as Ted Spindler, a friend and coworker of plant shift supervisor Jack Godell (portrayed by Jack Lemmon). That same year, he appeared in the Robert Redford/Jane Fonda feature film "The Electric Horseman" cast as simply "The Farmer" while assisting Redford and Fonda's characters evade troopers while transporting the horse in a cattle hauler. Later, Brimley made a brief but pivotal appearance in Absence of Malice (1981) as the curmudgeonly, outspoken Assistant Attorney General James A. Wells. In the movie The Thing (1982) he played the role of Blair, a biologist among a group of men at an American research station in Antarctica who encounter a dangerous alien that can perfectly imitate other organisms.{{cite news|title=Wilford Brimley, Star of The Thing and Cocoon, Dies at Age 85|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/08/wilford-brimley-star-of-the-thing-and-cocoon-dies-at-age-85|first=Jordan|last=Hoffman|date=August 2, 2020|access-date=August 2, 2020|magazine=Vanity Fair}}

Brimley's close friend Robert Duvall (who also appeared in The Natural) was instrumental in securing for him the role of Harry in Tender Mercies (1983). Duvall, who had not been getting along with director Bruce Beresford, wanted "somebody down here that's on my side, somebody that I can relate to."{{Cite AV media |people=Bruce Beresford (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Gary Hertz (director) |date=April 16, 2002 |title=Miracles & Mercies |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383509/ |publisher=Blue Underground |location=West Hollywood, California |access-date=February 1, 2008 |archive-date=October 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015210202/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383509/ |url-status=live}} Beresford felt Brimley was too old for the part but eventually agreed to the casting. Brimley, like Duvall, clashed with the director; during one instance when Beresford tried to advise Brimley on how Harry would behave, Duvall recalled Brimley responding: "Now look, let me tell you something, I'm Harry. Harry's not over there, Harry's not over here. Until you fire me or get another actor, I'm Harry, and whatever I do is fine 'cause I'm Harry."

Brimley then appeared as Pop Fisher, world-weary manager of a slumping baseball team, in The Natural (1984). Brimley appeared in the 1984 film Country as Otis, the patriarch of a family farm, which took a sobering look at farms in crisis in the 1980s. Shortly thereafter, Brimley secured his first leading role in Ron Howard's Cocoon (1985), portraying Ben Luckett, leader of a group of geriatrics who encounter a magically reinvigorating swimming pool by their retirement home. Brimley was only 49 when he was cast in the role, and turned 50 during filming; he was at least 20 years younger than any of the actors playing the other retirement home residents. In order to look the part, Brimley bleached his hair and moustache to turn them gray, and had wrinkles and liver spots drawn on his face.{{cite book |title=Monster Squad: Celebrating the Artists Behind Cinema's Most Memorable Creatures |first=Heather A. |last=Wixson |publisher=BearManor Media |year=2017 |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ey4_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 |access-date=September 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523060658/https://books.google.com/books?id=ey4_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 |url-status=live}} He also starred in Cocoon: The Return, a 1988 sequel.

Through these and other roles, Brimley became widely known for portraying gruff or stodgy old men, most notably on the 1980s NBC drama series Our House, also starring Deidre Hall, Chad Allen, and Shannen Doherty. One exception was when he played William Devasher, sinister head of security for a Mafia-associated law firm, in the Tom Cruise film The Firm (1993).{{cite news|title=Wilford Brimley Dies: 'Cocoon', 'The Natural' Actor Was 85|url=https://deadline.com/2020/08/wilford-brimley-dead-cocoon-the-natural-actor-85-1203001716/|first=Alexandra|last=Del Rosario|date=August 1, 2020|access-date=August 2, 2020|magazine=Deadline Hollywood|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802035328/https://deadline.com/2020/08/wilford-brimley-dead-cocoon-the-natural-actor-85-1203001716/|url-status=live}}

After portraying the father of Kevin Kline in In & Out (1997), Brimley retreated from Hollywood in favor of involvement in more independent productions. He made an auspicious mainstream comeback with the TNT film Crossfire Trail (2001), co-starring with Tom Selleck (with whom he had previously worked in the films High Road to China and In & Out). He played an intimidating United States Postmaster General in a 1997 episode of Seinfeld ("The Junk Mail"), who forces Kramer to end his boycott of the mail service.{{cite news|title=Wilford Brimley, homespun character actor, dies at 85|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/wilford-brimley-homespun-character-actor-dies-at-85/2020/08/02/850aad4a-d47b-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html|first=Adam|last=Bernstein|date=August 2, 2020|access-date=August 2, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post}} After several more years of independent film and TV acting, Brimley had a supporting role in Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), making witty exchanges with star Hugh Grant.{{cite news|title=Why, Oh Why, Oh Why, Oh, Send Us to Wy-o-ming?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/movies/18morgans.html|first=Stephen|last=Holden|date=December 17, 2009|access-date=August 2, 2020|newspaper=The New York Times}}

Brimley frequently appeared in commercials, including a series of commercials for Quaker Oats, a campaign which became famous for his repeating their slogan "It's the right thing to do."{{cite web|last=Mcdonough|first=John|date=May 24, 1999|title=Jordan McGarth at 30|url=https://adage.com/article/news/jordan-mcgrath-30-decades-punctuated-numerous-a-progression-outstanding-advertising-figures-agency-grown-thrived-consistent-factor-history-presence-pat-mcgrath-2-2/62336|access-date=August 2, 2020|publisher=AdAge|archive-date=October 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005045854/https://adage.com/article/news/jordan-mcgrath-30-decades-punctuated-numerous-a-progression-outstanding-advertising-figures-agency-grown-thrived-consistent-factor-history-presence-pat-mcgrath-2-2/62336|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Todisco|first=Eric|date=August 2, 2020|title=Wilford Brimley, Cocoon Star and Face of Quaker Oats Commercials, Dies at 85: 'One of a Kind'|magazine=People|url=https://people.com/movies/wilford-brimley-dies-at-85/|access-date=August 2, 2020|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802234229/https://people.com/movies/wilford-brimley-dies-at-85/|url-status=live}} Developed by advertising agency Jordan, McGrath, Case & Taylor, the campaign began in 1987.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/12/business/advertising-oatmeal-battle-heats-up.html|title=Advertising; Oatmeal Battle Heats Up|last=Dougherty|first=Philip M.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 12, 1987|access-date=August 2, 2020|page=D9|archive-date=October 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006080141/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/12/business/advertising-oatmeal-battle-heats-up.html|url-status=live}} Brimley appeared in numerous television advertisements for Liberty Medical, a company specializing in home delivery of medical products (including diabetes testing supplies).{{cite news|title=Wilford Brimley, 'Cocoon' and 'Natural' actor, dies at 85|url=https://apnews.com/47e28e7ff299d8f4bc1424a73022ed73|first=Lynn|last=Elber|date=August 2, 2020|access-date=August 2, 2020|work=Associated Press|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802044829/https://apnews.com/47e28e7ff299d8f4bc1424a73022ed73|url-status=live}} He appeared in commercials for the American Diabetes Association{{Cite web|first=Faith |last=Karimi |first2=Alta |last2=Spells |title=Wilford Brimley, 'Cocoon' actor who appeared in Quaker Oats commercials, dies at 85|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/entertainment/wilford-brimley-actor-dies/index.html|access-date=August 3, 2020|website=CNN|date=August 2, 2020|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802220805/https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/entertainment/wilford-brimley-actor-dies/index.html|url-status=live}} and was the voice-over for a Bryan Foods television commercial campaign.{{cite web|title=Celebrity Gallery|url=http://www.peterhoffmancreative.com/new-page-44|access-date=August 2, 2020|publisher=Peter Hoffman|archive-date=October 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006034217/http://www.peterhoffmancreative.com/new-page-44|url-status=live}}

Brimley has been described as "a fine singer with a warm, rich voice".{{cite news| title=Actor Feeling His Oats as Singer: Wilford Brimley will perform with a jazz band at a benefit concert Saturday for a new CSUN scholarship fund| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-26-va-534-story.html| first=James E.| last=Fowler| work=Los Angeles Times| date=February 26, 1993| access-date=July 18, 2011| archive-date=November 7, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107144703/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-26/news/va-534_1_wilford-brimley| url-status=live}} In 1993, Brimley sang with the Cal State Northridge Jazz Band for a concert benefiting the college's Jazz Endowment Scholarship Fund. In 2004, he released This Time, The Dream's On Me, an album of jazz standards named after the Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer-penned title track.{{cite web| title=Wilford Brimley: This Time the Dream's on Me| url=http://cdtrrracks.com/Wilford%20Brimley/This%20Time%20the%20Dream%4039s+on+Me/| publisher=CDTracks| year=2004| access-date=March 3, 2014| archive-date=October 29, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184244/http://cdtrrracks.com/Wilford%20Brimley/This%20Time%20the%20Dream%4039s+on+Me/| url-status=live}} He was also an accomplished harmonica player; during his 2011 appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Brimley performed a lively rendition of "Oh! Susanna" much to the delight, and surprise, of Ferguson and the studio audience.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCOaBXES7Y| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/1SCOaBXES7Y| archive-date=November 7, 2021| url-status=live| title=Craig Ferguson 11/23/11E Late Late Show Wilford Brimley XD| publisher=TVsCraigFerguson2| date=November 25, 2011| access-date=December 22, 2016| via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} In 2013, Riders in the Sky partnered with Brimley to produce the album Home on the Range, which featured him singing a variety of country and folk songs.{{cite web |last=Moore |first=Addie |title=Flashback: Wilford Brimley Performs 'My Little Red Wagon' With Riders in the Sky |website=Wide Open Country |date=3 August 2020 |url=https://www.wideopencountry.com/wilford-brimley-riders-in-the-sky/ |access-date=16 May 2023 |archive-date=May 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516030324/https://www.wideopencountry.com/wilford-brimley-riders-in-the-sky/ |url-status=live}}

Brimley was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.{{cite book |last=Abanes |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Abanes |year=2009 |chapter=Chapter Two: Mormons in Movieland |title=Religion of the Stars: What Hollywood Believes and How It Affects You |location=Bloomington, Minnesota |publisher=Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group |isbn=9780764206481 |oclc=263988104}} He was married to Lynne Bagley from July 6, 1956, until her death in June 2000. They had four sons together: James Charles, John Michael, William Carmen, and Lawrence Dean.{{cite web |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/801576/Obituary-Lynne-Bagley-Brimley.html |title=Obituary: Lynne Bagley Brimley |access-date=December 9, 2013 |date=June 17, 2000 |work=Deseret News |archive-date=December 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215061155/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/801576/Obituary-Lynne-Bagley-Brimley.html |url-status=dead}} He married Beverly Berry on October 31, 2007. They split their time between homes in Greybull, Wyoming, and Santa Clara, Utah.{{cite news| title=Making a Christmas Connection| url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_0ffd35a8-f1de-11de-b0c1-001cc4c002e0.html| last=Matray| first=Margaret| date=December 26, 2009| work=Billings Gazette| access-date=March 3, 2014| archive-date=July 8, 2012| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708012651/http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_0ffd35a8-f1de-11de-b0c1-001cc4c002e0.html| url-status=live}} In 2009, they founded the nonprofit organization Hands Across the Saddle (HATS) in the Bighorn Basin.{{cite web |url=http://www.handsacrossthesaddle.org/ |title=Hands Across the Saddle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714153652/https://www.handsacrossthesaddle.org/|archive-date=July 14, 2011 |work=HATS}}

Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1979, Brimley began working to raise awareness of the disease. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) honored him in 2008 with an award to recognize his lifetime of service.{{cite web| url=http://www.rambleunderground.org/wilford-brimley-biography/| title=Wilford Brimley Biography| publisher=rambleunderground.org| access-date=January 10, 2017| archive-date=January 11, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111002854/http://www.rambleunderground.org/wilford-brimley-biography/| url-status=dead}} The ADA presented the award to him at the Port St. Lucie headquarters of Liberty Medical on December 19, 2008.{{cite news |first=Laurie K. |last=Blandford |title=Actor Wilford Brimley surprised with award from American Diabetes Association in Port St. Lucie |url=http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/dec/19/actor-wilford-brimley-surprised-award-american-dia/ |publisher=TCPalm |work=The St. Lucie News-Tribune |date=December 19, 2008 |access-date=June 22, 2009 |archive-date=February 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219194905/http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/dec/19/actor-wilford-brimley-surprised-award-american-dia/ |url-status=live}} He visited Veterans Administration hospitals and communities to advise patients on how to manage their diseases. His television advertisements for Liberty Medical became an Internet meme due to Brimley's dialectal pronunciation of "diabetes", often rendered as "diabeetus" ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|d|aɪ|ə|ˈ|b|iː|t|ə|s}}), contrasting with his overall serious tone.{{cite web|url=https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/wilford-brimley-mr-diabeetus-563978/|title=Wilford Brimley: Mr. Diabeetus|website=Diabetes Daily|last=Butterman|first=Matthew|date=May 6, 2018|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-date=July 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721014432/https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/wilford-brimley-mr-diabeetus-563978/|url-status=live}}

Brimley spoke against the banning of cockfighting in New Mexico on the basis of his support of individual rights.{{cite web |url=http://www.all-creatures.org/adow/cam-anfi-20050223.html |title=Cockfighting still legal in New Mexico. N.M. Panel Rejects Cockfighting Ban Plan. |access-date=June 22, 2009 |last=Barnes |first=Peter |date=February 23, 2005 |publisher=AllCreatures.org |archive-date=February 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222041226/http://www.all-creatures.org/adow/cam-anfi-20050223.html |url-status=live}} He also spoke at a 1998 Phoenix rally opposing an Arizona ballot proposition to ban cockfighting, arguing that a ban could lead to efforts to restrict the use of hunting dogs, which opponents of cockfighting called a distraction from the issue.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=875&dat=19981101&id=4BVQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5106,4012427 |title=Wilford Brimley endorsed cockfighting |access-date=March 2, 2014 |last=Molloy |first=Tim |date=November 1, 1998 |work=Today's News-Herald |location=Lake Havasu City, Arizona |agency=Associated Press |archive-date=October 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006032315/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=875&dat=19981101&id=4BVQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5106,4012427 |url-status=live}} Brimley enjoyed playing poker{{cite web| title=Wilford Brimley Biography| url=http://www.perfectpeople.net/biography/8812/wilford-brimley.htm| publisher=perfectpeople.com| access-date=March 3, 2014| archive-date=October 11, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011014329/http://www.perfectpeople.net/biography/8812/wilford-brimley.htm| url-status=live}} and played in the World Series of Poker Main Event.{{cite web| url=http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result1747.htm| title=Event #27 – WSOP World Championship – No Limit Hold'em (Day 4) Results & Report| date=May 14, 2001| publisher=pokerpages.com| access-date=March 3, 2014| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303021535/http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result1747.htm| archive-date=March 3, 2014| df=mdy-all}}

Brimley lent his support to John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election.{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/05/mccains-unveils-his-answ_n_79945.html| title=McCain's Unveils His Answer To Chuck Norris| work=The Huffington Post| first=Nick| last=Sabloff| date=January 5, 2008| access-date=May 23, 2008| archive-date=February 17, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217035440/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/05/mccains-unveils-his-answ_n_79945.html| url-status=live}} In the days leading up to his selection of a running mate, McCain jokingly stated that he would pick Brimley: "He's a former Marine and great guy and he's older than I am, so that might work."{{cite news| title=Carolina Decides| url=http://charlotte.news14.com/content/carolina_decides/598777/mccain--no-decision-yet-on-vp/| work=Time Warner Cable News North Carolina| date=August 28, 2008| access-date=March 3, 2014|agency=Associated Press| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130726193532/http://charlotte.news14.com/content/carolina_decides/598777/mccain--no-decision-yet-on-vp/| archive-date=July 26, 2013| url-status=dead}}

Brimley died at a hospital in St. George, Utah, on August 1, 2020, at age 85 after suffering from a kidney condition for two months.{{Cite news|last=Grimes|first=William|date=August 1, 2020|title=Wilford Brimley, 'Cocoon' star and Quaker Oats pitchman, is dead at 85|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/obituaries/wilford-brimley-dead.html|access-date=August 2, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802035036/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/obituaries/wilford-brimley-dead.html|url-status=live}}

Sources:{{cite web|title=Wilford Brimley List of Movies and TV Shows|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/wilford-brimley/credits/179016/|website=TV Guide|access-date=August 2, 2020|archive-date=October 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005083331/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/wilford-brimley/credits/179016/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wilford_brimley|title=Wilford Brimley|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=August 2, 2020|archive-date=August 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828194910/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wilford_brimley|url-status=live}}

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