Wilford Brimley, best known for his roles in “The Natural,” the 1982 remake of “The Thing,” “The Firm” and “Cocoon,” died on Saturday. He was 85. His…
, best known for his roles in “The Natural,” the 1982 remake of “The Thing,” “The Firm” and “Cocoon,” died on Saturday. He was 85.
The actor had a habit of creating memorable performances even in relatively small roles. In Barry Levinson’s nostalgic period baseball movie “The Natural” , Brimley brought a welcome characterfulness to his role as the team manager Pop Fisher that the bland hero played by Robert Redford utterly lacked.
Brimley appeared in the Robert Duvall-dominated “Tender Mercies” but still found room to make an impression as the Duvall character’s old manager, patient but truth-telling, and the same year, the actor was the best thing in the long-forgotten Tom Selleck adventure vehicle “High Road to China,” in which he played the gone-missing father of Bess Armstrong’s character.
The year 1979 was a busy one for Brimley: He appeared in the miniseries “How the West Was Won,” played President Grover Cleveland in the reunion telepic “The Wild Wild West Revisited,” and had roles in two Jane Fonda films: “The Electric Horseman,” also starring Robert Redford, and “The China Syndrome; a couple of years later he reunited with Redford on “Brubaker,” in which Brimley had a small role.
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