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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2020 9:25 am Post subject: R.I.P. Wilford Brimley
I'll always remember him as the manager in "The Natural", The head of the secret agency in "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins", and the Postmaster General in "Seinfeld" in that episode when Kramer refused to accept any more mail.
I'm surprised he was only 85 years old. I feel like I've been watching him since I was a kid and he looked old even back then. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
As a diabetic, I will miss Mr. Brimley as chief spokesman and advocate for getting affordable testing supplies. Besides his lone scene from Seinfeld, always loved his role in My Fellow Americans!
Joined: 24 Jun 2018 Posts: 223 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:07 pm Post subject:
My wife makes fun of me because I pronounce it dia-beet-us instead of dia-bee-tees.
MANY great performances IMHO.....but Absence of Malice is the role that I first remember being aware of him with. And, of course, Pop in The Natural was absolutely the best. He will be missed.....RIP _________________ Lakers Defense - ♿♿♿
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: R.I.P. Wilford Brimley
DancingBarry wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
I'm surprised he was only 85 years old. I feel like I've been watching him since I was a kid and he looked old even back then.
Yeah, he was pretty much born looking 85 years old. He was 50 in Cocoon.
I'm in the mood for love.....simply because I've got one!
When I watched that scene I posted from The Thing, I figured that they might've zeroed in on Brimley because it was an intensive scene where they wanted an older guy (or older looking one) to be so high on adrenaline that he was swinging an ax many times and pushing down Russell and others even when they jumped on him. Brims had the look and was physically capable enough to do the scene. Richard Dysart (the other "older" cast who got his arms bitten off by The Thing) didn't have that role. He was 5 years older than Brims, tho they looked about the same age.
Eww:
Speaking of Cocoon, I saw Gutenberg on Maher the other day and didn't recognize him until Maher said his name. He's taken the old guy mantle. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
Joined: 09 Dec 2009 Posts: 4330 Location: Meeting the man who met Andy Griffith.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:21 pm Post subject:
AS YOU MAY KNOW, i have dya'beetuz
AS YOU MAY KNOW, AS YOU MAY KNOW.... jesus, what the hell do you mean AS YOU MAY KNOW, so (bleep) matter of fact with that AS YOU MAY KNOW.
HOW THE HELL am I supposed to KNOW your medical history?!
I guarantee you he was hung like a stallion with that type of confidence.
RIP WILFORD, You always pissed me off but I loved you for it. _________________ "The best there is. The best there was. The best there ever will be.", said Bret Hart regarding the Los Angeles Lakers.
Joined: 24 Jun 2018 Posts: 223 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:39 pm Post subject:
I agree, and that's in no way intended as a knock against the guy. He always seemed much older than what he was with, due to him playing older/senior characters when he was younger than what his characters would have been. _________________ Lakers Defense - ♿♿♿
Joined: 09 Dec 2009 Posts: 4330 Location: Meeting the man who met Andy Griffith.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:11 pm Post subject:
C M B wrote:
dia beetus
Watched this last year, felt good to find it again... _________________ "The best there is. The best there was. The best there ever will be.", said Bret Hart regarding the Los Angeles Lakers.
Did you post that twice on purpose? Not that you shouldn't warn people of dia beetus every day, but curious. It used to be called sugar dia beetus, btw. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
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