Wilford Brimley - Wikipedia

An excellent character actor. Thanks for the share and good morning Maj Marty Hogan

Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us ware that September 27 is the anniversary of the birth of USMC veteran, ranch hand and wrangler, blacksmith, and a bodyguard for Howard Hughes - Anthony Wilford Brimley "became an extra for Westerns, 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)."
Anthony Wilford "Brimley enlisted in the Marines during the Korean War and was stationed for three years in the Aleutian Islands."

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Biographies from
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2. allamericanspeakers.com

1. Background from mormonwiki.com/Wilford_Brimley:Mormon_Actor
Wilford Brimley Mormon Actor
Anthony Wilford Brimley is an American television, movie, and commercial actor.
Brimley was born September 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He dropped out of high school to serve in the United States Marine Corps, where he served in the Aleutian Islands for three years. He also worked as a ranch hand, wrangler, blacksmith, and a bodyguard for Howard Hughes. He shoed horses for film and television.
At the urging of his friend, actor Robert Duvall, he began acting in the 1960s as a riding extra in Westerns and a stunt man. He had a recurring role in the 1970s television show The Waltons. He played Walton’s Mountain resident Horace Brimley and appeared in seven episodes from 1974 through 1977.
He was cast in the 1983 film Tender Mercies at Robert Duvall’s request. Duvall wasn’t getting along well with the director and wanted someone nearby with whom he could relate. Brimley became well known through character roles in such films as The China Syndrome, The Electric Horseman, Brubaker, The Thing, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Natural, Cocoon, Crossfire Trail, Absence of Malice, and The Firm. He also starred in the 1980s television drama Our House and appeared in an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger and Seinfeld.
He was spokesman for many years for Quaker Oats oatmeal and Liberty Medical. Diagnosed with diabetes in 1979, he began working to raise awareness of the disease. He has visited Veterans Administration hospitals and communities to advise patients on how to manage their diseases. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) honored Brimley in 2008 with an award to recognize his lifetime of service.
Brimley is also an activist for horse-race gambling and cockfighting and supports individual rights.
Brimley and his wife, Lynne, married in 1956 and had four sons. She passed away in June 2000. In 2006, Brimley moved to Greybull, Wyoming."

2. Background from allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Wilford+Brimley/401075
" Wilford Brimley Biography
Anthony Wilford Brimley credited either as A. Wilford Brimley or Wilford Brimley, is an American actor. He has appeared in many notable films including The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), The Natural (1984), Cocoon (1985) and The Firm (1993). He had a recurring role on the 1970s television series The Waltons. Brimley has also done television advertisements, including for the Quaker Oats Company and Liberty Medical.

He has type 2 adult-onset diabetes, and has appeared in related commercials for Liberty Medical.

Brimley's onscreen breakthrough came when was cast in the popular 1970s television series The Waltons as Walton's Mountain resident 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 Jack Lemmon, Jack Godell. Later, Brimley made a brief, but pivotal, appearance in Absence of Malice (1981) as the curmudgeonly, outspoken Assistant U.S. Attorney James A. Wells. He expanded on this cantankerous persona as Pop Fisher, world-weary manager of a slumping baseball team, in The Natural (1984). 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'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." 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."

Through these and other early roles, Brimley became widely known for portraying gruff or stodgy old men, most notably on the 1980s drama series Our House, also starring Deidre Hall, Chad Allen and Shannen Doherty. However, he made a change from such "good guy" roles when he played William Devasher, ominous head of security for the Bendini, Lambert & Locke law firm, in the Tom Cruise film The Firm (1993) (based on the novel by John Grisham).

After portraying the father of Kevin Kline's protagonist in In & Out (1997), Brimley retreated from Hollywood in favor of involvement in more independent fare. He made an auspicious mainstream comeback with the TNT film Crossfire Trail (2001), co-starring with Tom Selleck (whom he had previously worked with in the '80s film High Road to China). 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.

Brimley has frequently appeared in commercials, notably a series of commercials for Quaker Oats Oatmeal throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The Quaker commercials were famous for their slogan: "It's the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it." Brimley is also known for appearing in numerous television advertisements for Liberty Medical, a company specializing in home delivery of medical products such as diabetes testing supplies. He was also the voice-over for a Bryan Foods television commercial campaign, which was created by the New York advertising agency Ally & Gargano, written by A & G group creative director Peter Hoffman, and directed by long-time Hollywood director Howard Zieff.

Brimley has been described as "a fine singer with a warm, rich voice." 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. He is 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."

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