Wilford Brimley Overview:

Character actor, Wilford Brimley, was born Anthony Wilford Brimley on Sep 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, UT. Brimley died at the age of 85 on Aug 1, 2020 in St. George, UT .

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Barrel-like, mustachioed, often bespectacled American actor with blinky eyes who has almost always played characters older than his real age. Brimley was a farm worker and rodeo rider who gained weight and became a blacksmith, then determined to be a film actor and gradually got a toehold after years of extra work. Nowadays giving fine performances in fat character roles as crusty but sympathetic types, although less often seen in recent times.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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