RIP Actor Wilford Brimley Cocoon etc.
 

34 years after cocoon

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wilford Brimley, Face of Quaker Oats &amp; Diabetes Campaigns, Dead at 85 <a href="https://t.co/RnISNpFaY0">https://t.co/RnISNpFaY0</a></p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1289759208804507648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That dude was still alive?

Yeah no shit.

He is with Yule Gibbons now

He was only 51 in Cocoon. Seemed to about 80 in cocoon.

85 isn't that old you whippersnappers!

Did the diabetus get him?

I hate Wilford Brimley.

Aren't Quacker Oats racist now? RIP Wilford!

at least pop fisher got to win the pennant

Just saying. https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/...redits/179016/

Damn, I guess he really took his advice to heart, having diabetes at 51 and living til you're 80.

I thought that dude was in his 80s like 20 years ago.

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Noooo the diabetes guy

I don’t know who to trust.

RIP...good man who was a great advocate

The Beatus

He was a fantastic character actor. Never saw him in anything where he didn't give a great performance. RIP

Post Master General it was his job and he was pretty damn serious about it.

I'll bite, why?

Rona or Beetus

One of my favorite Wilford Brimley scenes, from Absence of Malice.

40 year old movie, and he looked older than dirt back then, even though he was younger than I am now.

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He was only 50 when he was in Cocoon.

Shit, beat me to it.

Good movie.

One of my fave roles of his was in The Firm. Because he played against type

“Do I look like a ****in night watchman to you!”

RIP. He was great.

And Tom Cruise is currently 58

I had this typed out and I actually put 8 years older thinking that it was an exaggeration.

So the dude was 55 or so hanging off an airplane taking off?

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I came on here to post about this movie. It is a great movie. Well worth watching. And he did a great job as the US Attorney in Miami. Although if he wanted make it realistic, he should have bitten a stripper’s boob.

He was also really creepy and threatening in The Firm. Good actor.

and he's been 85 for my entire lifetime.

Don Imus / Wilford Brimley Thanksgiving


https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/s...5&action=click

Don Imus / Wilford Brimley Christmas


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McNeXLwmbI0

This right here!

Always felt he was playing himself, which some say are the very best actors.

Guy did a hell of a job representing a no bullshit approach. Just straight up. Like a rock solid father/grandpa.

RIP

knew this would be in the first 5-7 responses!

RIP sir

RIP Wilford..........

Should have stayed with the aliens....

On a side note, this made me want to watch ‘Cocoon’ again. But apparently it’s not available to stream anywhere? Strange.

I live about a mile from where they filmed the swimming pool scenes and kept the alien eggs. It was just an outdoor pool. The owner agreed to let them film there since they were going to build the enclosure over the pool. It's still there. The old peoples houses are still there but the land is getting so valuable with millennial's moving into the area, its not going to last much longer.

Yep !! :thumb: I think he did his best work in "The Natural".

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Don't watch Cocoon. Watch The Thing. Much better movie.

The Thing is absolutely brilliant. Yes.

But I haven’t seen Cocoon in 30 years probably.

The one with Marshall Mat Dillon as the thing because that was horrible. I think it had been remade twice since the original though.

Of course not, only thing that kills people today is COVID. :LOL: