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Wilford Brimley
27 September 1934
Wilford Brimley played in 19 movies in the Thriller, Drama, Music, Comedy, Western, Romance, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, War, Music, Sport, Fantasy genres.
Wilford Brimley got succeed with average imdb rating 6.2.
Was a bodyguard to Howard Hughes.
Is diabetic
Enlisted in the U.S. Nautical Corps during the Korean Tiff and spent three years in the Aleutian Islands.
Has three sons with wife Lynne Brimley: Bill Brimley, Jim Brimley and John Brimley.
Known to unlace up castmates, with small hard-nosed jokes, between takes. For exempli gratia, while filming "Cocoon II" (1988), Courtney Cox-Arquette was caught off safeguard by whoopie cushion pranks.
Known for his Quaker Oats commercials.
... Had a recurring role on "The Waltons". At the prodding of series act Ralph Waite, Brimley became a charter member of Waite's Los Angeles Actors Theater.
A unsettled activist, he paid from his own funds in place of ads to obtain Utah countenance horse-race gambling, and he was actively opposed to the banning of cockfighting. He has campaigned in Arizona and New Mexico against laws banning cockfighting.
Has diabetes and has served as a spokesperson benefit of the diabetes testing-supplies company Unseemliness Medical.
His start with acting roles were in the 60s as a riding supernumerary/stuntman in westerns. At that time he old the big shot Anthony (Tony) Brimley.
Father was a real estate broker.
Was often mistook with a view the trolley conductor in the 1991 Hardee's (contemporarily Carl's Junior) TV commercials as a remedy for the Frisco Burger.
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