Wilford Brimley Filmography

Born:: September 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, UT
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With varied rugged experiences ranging from blacksmith to horse trainer, portly, handlebar-mustached Wilford Brimley entered films in the 1960s as a cowboy stunt man. Save for a few billed appearances on TV cowboy series like Gunsmoke, Brimley worked primarily in supporting roles until finally...Read More

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Resurrection Mary

Actors: Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: Directed by Matthew Arnold and filmed entirely in the state of Kentucky, Resurrection Mary revolves around one of the most famous ghost stories in American history. Supposedly, the young Mary Bregavy has been haunting the town of Resurrection, KY, since the turn of the century, when she was struck Read More

2002
Brigham City

Actors: Richard Dutcher, Matthew A. Brown, Mathew Brown, Wilford Brimley, Carrie Morgan

Synopsis: In this dramatic murder mystery from the director of God's Army, Richard Dutcher -- who is also this film's writer, producer, and star -- plays Wes Clayton, a young deputy sheriff who resides in a quiet Mormon community called Brigham. The town is turned upside down when a woman from California is Read More

4/6/01
Crossfire Trail

Actors: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, Brad Johnson, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Tom Selleck plays the drifter Rafe Covington in this respectful adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel Crossfire Trail, presented by Turner Network Television. A romantic Western, Crossfire Trail follows Rafe as he struggles to honor his vow to a dying friend to protect his wife and daughter and Read More

2001
Progeny

Actors: Arnold Vosloo, Jillian McWhirter, Brad Dourif, Lindsay Crouse, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: Brian Yuzna directed this sci-fi horror film with creature design by Screaming Mad George. Sherry (Jillian McWhirter) and Craig Burton (Arnold Vosloo) are zapped by a white light while making love, suffer a later memory loss of the incident, and see a psychiatrist (Lindsay Crouse) and UFO Read More

1998
Summer of the Monkeys

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Leslie Hope, Wilford Brimley, Corey Sevier, Katie Stuart

Synopsis: Michael Anderson directed this Canadian coming-of-age adventure that generates nostalgia for rural America at the turn of the century. Farmer John Lee (Michael Ontkean) and wife Sarah (Leslie Hope) have two children, Jay Berry (Corey Sevier) and crippled Daisy (Katie Stuart). Hoping to buy a pony Read More

1998
In & Out

Actors: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: Life is sweet for high-school English teacher and sports coach Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline); he's still living where he grew up, he has a good relationship with his father (Wilford Brimley) and mother (Debbie Reynolds), he's respected by his community, and he's about to marry Emily (Joan Cusack) Read More

1997
Seinfeld: The Junk Mail

Synopsis: Kramer (Michael Richards) plots a horrible revenge on the mail-order company that has been deluging him with catalogues. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) gets a car from his old pal "Fragile" Frankie (Dana Gould), but not the car he wanted; however, the vehicle falls right into place with Kramer's sinister Read More

1997
Chapter Perfect

Actors: Wilford Brimley, Caprice Benedetti, Lucky Vanous

Synopsis: Art imitates life with deadly consequences in this thriller. Michael Glover (Lucky Vanous) is a novelist who has written a series of successful mysteries. As part of his work, Glover is obsessed with dreaming up the perfect crime, though his good friend, Hawkins (Wilford Brimley), the local chief Read More

1996
My Fellow Americans

Actors: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, John Heard, Everett McGill, Sela Ward

Synopsis: In this comedy, Russell P. Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner) are two former U.S. Presidents who sit on opposite sides of the political fence. Kramer is a stuffy Republican reluctant to part with a dollar, while Douglas is a left-leaning Democrat with an eye for the ladies. Read More

1996
Heaven Sent

Actors: Vincent Kartheiser, David Bowe, Mary McDonough, Geoffrey Lower, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: A young man dies before his time and is given a second chance at life by a helpful angel in this comedy drama. The teen, Eddie, was well on the road to becoming a delinquent. He died when he was hit by a car after fleeing a convenience store where he had just stolen a snack. Howard, a novice Read More

1995
Last of the Dogmen

Actors: Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith

Synopsis: A mountain man goes on a routine manhunt and finds himself embroiled in solving a supernatural mystery in this fantasy/adventure. The tale is set in the wilds of Montana. Lewis Gates is a heavy-drinking tracker who is called to sober up and hit the backcountry to find three murderous fugitives Read More

1995
Tom Clancy's 'OP Center'

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Deidre Hall, Carl Weathers, Rod Steiger, John Savage

Synopsis: Another Tom Clancy political thriller is put to film with this made-for-television movie. Harry Hamlin stars as Paul Hood, the new director of an obsolete government crisis management center. Hood is assigned to downsize the center, but during first day on the job some nuclear warheads are Read More

1995
Mutant Species

Actors: Leo Rossi, Powers Boothe, Wilford Brimley, Denise Crosby, Ted Prior

Synopsis: In this sci-fi actioner, a crew of clean-up specialists dispatched to the site of a misfired rocket have no idea that they have been set up to be unwilling participants in an evil bio-geneticist's mad scheme to turn one of them into a mutant killing machine, a human prototype for a new kind of Read More

1995
The Good Old Boys

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Terry Kinney, Frances McDormand, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones made his directorial debut in this made-for-television movie about an aging cowboy dealing with the changing face of the West. Jones stars as Hewey Calloway, a cowboy who has roamed the West for years, who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads -- torn between the freedom of his Read More

1995
Homicide: Life on the Street - See No Evil

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: A childhood friend of Detective Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin) plans to assist in the suicide of his terminally ill father. When Felton hides his knowledge of this action, he runs afoul of investigating detectives Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Crosetti (Jon Polito). Elsewhere, Pembleton (Andre Braugher) Read More

1994
Hard Target

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo, Yancy Butler, Kasi Lemmons

Synopsis: John Woo's first Hollywood feature stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, a down-and-out Cajun merchant seaman, who, after saving a young woman, Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of thugs on the streets of New Orleans, agrees to help her search for her father (Chuck Pfarrer), a Read More

1993
The Firm

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ed Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Mitch McDeer (Tom Cruise) is a young man from a poor Southern family who has struggled through Harvard Law School to graduate fifth in his class. Mitch is entertaining offers from major firms in New York and Chicago, but when Read More

1993
Where the Red Fern Grows 2

Actors: Doug McKeon, Wilford Brimley, Adam Faraizl

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1974 family film Where the Red Fern Grows tells the story of a man named Billy Coleman (Doug McKeon), who returns from duty in WWII to the home of his crotchety grandfather (Wilford Brimley). Hidden deep in the Louisiana woods, the home provides a place for Billy to readjust to Read More

1992
Blood River

Actors: Rick Schroder, Wilford Brimley, John Ryan

Synopsis: This made-for-TV western stars Rick Schroder as a hotheaded cowboy who guns down the man responsible for the death of his parents. On the run from his victim's powerful father, Schroder is sheltered by old codger Wilford Brimley. Brimley seems to be operating out of friendship, but his reason for Read More

1991
Eternity

Actors: Jon Voight, Armand Assante, Eileen Davidson, Wilford Brimley, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: In this blend of fantasy and romantic comedy, a man isn't sure if he's stuck between past and present or if his imagination is simply working overtime. Edward (Jon Voight) is a prince in Medieval Europe, where his greatest rival is his brother Roni (Armand Assante). Roni wants to declare war on Read More

1990
Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid

Actors: Val Kilmer, Duncan Regehr

Synopsis: Gore Vidal's 1955 TV play and 1958 film The Left-Handed Gun discreetly explored the hitherto untapped homosexual subtext in the saga of gunslinger Billy the Kid. Vidal's 1989 reworking of the same material, the made-for-cable Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid, is just as discreet, but no less top-heavy Read More

1989
Cocoon: The Return

Actors: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis: Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling too long on Cocoon #1, we can observe that it ended with a group of senior citizens heading for the distant planet of Antarea, hoping to find a new, rewarding and elongated Read More

1988
End of the Line

Actors: Wilford Brimley, Levon Helm, Mary Steenburgen, Barbara Barrie, Henderson Forsythe

Synopsis: Two Southern railroad workers drive a train engine to Chicago to protest the closing of the station in Clifford, Arkansas. Will Haney (Wilford Brimley) and his friend Leo Pickett (Levon Helm) steal the engine and hope to confront the company president to prevent the shutdown. The duo gathers Read More

5/22/87
Our House: Season 02

1987
American Justice

Actors: Jack Lucarelli, Gerald McRaney, Wilford Brimley, Jameson Parker, Jeannie Wilson

Synopsis: While visiting his former partner in an Arizona border town, LA cop Jack Lucarelli witnesses a murder. The killer is white slaver Gerald McRaney-who turns out to be one of local sheriff Wilford Brimley's most trusted deputies. Nobody believes Lucarelli's eyewitness account, not even his ex-partner Jameson Parker Read More

8/29/86
Our House: Season 01

1986
Thompson's Last Run

Synopsis: A pair of childhood friends meet again after one becomes a convict and the other a law man assigned to transport him to prison. Thompson's Last Run features Robert Mitchum and Wilford Brimley in the lead roles. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Shadows on the Wall

1986
Act of Vengeance

Actors: Wilford Brimley, Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: Produced for the HBO Cable service, Act of Vengeance reenacts the 1969 murder of United Mine Workers leader Jock Yablonski. Yablonski (Charles Bronson) virtually writes his own death warrant when, after a "safe" mine collapses and 80 miners are killed, he rebels against the incumbent UMW boss Tony Read More

1986
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

Actors: Aubree Miller, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: This expensively wrought TV movie was the sequel to the 1984 offering Ewok Adventure, which in turn was inspired by those furry little extraterrestrials introduced in the 1983 theatrical feature Return of the Jedi. On the forest moon of Endor, a little girl (Aubree Miller) is protected by the Read More

1985
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Actors: Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley, J.A. Preston, George Coe, Kate Mulgrew

Synopsis: Adapted from the "Destroyer" series of novels and comic books (not exactly the level of Ian Fleming), Remo Williams (Fred Ward) is a New York cop who works for a top-secret government agency accountable directly to the President of the U.S. After his reluctant induction into this agency, Remo is Read More

1985
Cocoon

Actors: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon

Synopsis: Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly corny thanks to the performances of its mostly senior cast. Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, and Hume Cronyn are three old-timers who sneak out of their retirement home a few days a week to swim in the large pool on an Read More

1985
Murder in Space

Actors: Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: A crew of international astronauts find that a murderer is in their ranks. They must solve the crime before reaching earth, and fortunately receive help from the base commander (Wilford Brimley). The film was originally made for television. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Country

Actors: Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Therese Graham

Synopsis: Released in the mid-1980s, this farm drama stars Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard as Jewell and Gil Ivy, who run a small farm in Iowa that has been in Jewell's family for several generations; her father Otis (Wilford Brimley) lives with them, along with their three children. While the work is hard Read More

1984
The Hotel New Hampshire

Actors: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located. Writer-director Tony Richardson worked from Read More

1984
Harry and Son

Actors: Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Harry (Paul Newman), a middle-aged hardhat, has trouble communicating with his teenaged son Howard (Robby Benson). While Harry wants Howard to find a bread-and-butter job, the sensitive boy would rather pursue a writing career. Howard tries his best to please his dad, but ultimately realizes that Read More

1984
The Natural

Actors: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a Read More

1984
The Stone Boy

Actors: Robert Duvall, Jason Presson, Frederic Forrest, Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: In this tightly-wound, perceptive film, a young farm boy kills his older brother when a shotgun accidentally goes off then retreats into a shell of silence as his family seems to react against him. Arnold (Jason Presson) and his brother get up at the crack of dawn to go duck hunting, but their Read More

1984
Tough Enough

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier, Warren Oates

Synopsis: In this sports-oriented drama, Art Long (Dennis Quaid), a loser as a country singer, starts competing in local fist-fight matches in order to bring home a little extra cash -- and is caught up in his successes enough to continue on to the big national finals. Predictable from the first round Read More

1983
Tender Mercies

Actors: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Allan Hubbard, Betty Buckley, Ellen Barkin

Synopsis: Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall), a once-famous country western singer, wakes up broke, alone and hung over in a tiny Texas motel run by widowed Rosa Lee (Tess Harper). Having nowhere else to go, Sledge takes a job at the motel, and through the kindness and faith of Rosa he changes his self-destructive Read More

1983
The High Road to China

Actors: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley

Synopsis: O'Malley (Tom Selleck) is a heavy-drinking, tough biplane pilot flying the skies of China for fun and profit when Eve (Bess Armstrong) seeks him out to help her find her father before he is declared dead and she loses an inheritance to the evil Bentik (Robert Morley). O'Malley does not really want Read More

1983
10 to Midnight

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Gene Davis, Andrew Stevens, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-the-mill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's Read More

1983
Amber Waves

Actors: Kurt Russell, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: Amber Waves is the tale of two radically different personalities, united by crisis. Dennis Weaver plays a midwestern wheat harvester, coarsened by his lifelong struggle with poverty and the elements. Kurt Russell plays an obnoxious Manhattan-based male model, who has coasted through life on his Read More

1982
The Thing

Actors: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David

Synopsis: John Carpenter's The Thing is both a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film of the same name and a re-adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who Goes There?" on which it was based. Carpenter's film is more faithful to Campbell's story than Hawks' version and also substantially more reliant on Read More

1982
Absence of Malice

Actors: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: In this legal drama from director Sydney Pollack, Sally Field stars as Megan, an ambitious newpaper reporter who, based on information from FBI investigator Rosen, played by Bob Balaban, writes a scathing article that implicates Gallagher, a reclusive business-owner played by Paul Newman, in the Read More

1981
Death Valley

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie, Wilford Brimley, Peter Billingsley

Synopsis: While traveling across Arizona with his divorced mother and her new boyfriend, a precocious young boy stumbles onto a grisly murder scene, placing the three of them in mortal danger at the hands of a pair of good-ol'-boy twin psychopaths. It's hard to tell whether the producers of this film Read More

1981
The Big Black Pill

Actors: Robert Blake

Synopsis: Actor/producer Robert Blake tried and failed three times to launch a TV detective weekly titled Joe Dancer. The first such attempt was the feature-length pilot The Big Black Pill. As Joe Dancer, Blake struts and frets his way around Beverly Hills in search of a killer. Blake's then-wife Sondra Read More

1981
Brubaker

Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More

1980
Borderline

Actors: Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Ed Harris, Karmin Murcelo, Bert Remsen, Michael Lerner, Enrique J. Castillo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson switches from his traditional role as a vigilante to playing an actual lawman in this crime drama. Jeb Maynard (Bronson) is a border patrol agent who is trying to stem the tide of illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. Jeb is hot on the trail of Hotchkiss (Ed Harris), a Read More

1980
Rodeo Girl

Actors: Katharine Ross, Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark

Synopsis: The Rodeo Girl is 26-year-old Sammy Garrett (Katherine Ross). Despite opposition from the good-ole-boy network, Sammy is determined to succeed as a bronco buster. But her plans may be thwarted when Sammy becomes pregnant. Even if she doesn't lose the baby, it's likely that she'll lose the love of Read More

1980
Roughnecks

Synopsis: One of several syndicated TV miniseries of the 1980s, Roughnecks was part of the same "Golden Circle" project that previously yielded the multipart Wild Times. The title refers to a group of two-fisted oil wildcatters, among them self-made millionaire Paul Marshall (Steve Forrest), his lifelong Read More

1980
The Wild, Wild West Revisited

Actors: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Harry Morgan, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: In the made-for-television film Wild, Wild West Revisited, the classic comedy/espionage/western television series is brought up to date with a story featuring government agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon leaving retirement to battle Miguelito Loveless, who is planning to conquer the earth by Read More

1979
The Electric Horseman

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, John Saxon, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: A cowboy-turned-huckster unexpectedly finds love as he tries to regain his self-respect in this romantic comedy drama. Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a one-time rodeo star whose career as a cowboy has ground to a halt. He makes a good living as a spokesman for Ranch Breakfast, a sugar-coated Read More

1979
The China Syndrome

Actors: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power carried an extra jolt when a real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania occurred just weeks after the film opened. Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) is a TV reporter trying to advance from fluff pieces to harder Read More

1979
The Waltons: The Hawk

Synopsis: The sixth season of The Waltons) gets under way minus two longtime series regulars: Richard Thomas as John-Boy and Ellen Corby as Grandma Walton (though both actors would return during the season as guest stars). It is 1939, and as war clouds gather in Europe, a battle of a more spiritual nature Read More

1977
The Waltons: The Heartbreaker

Synopsis: Jason (Jon Walmsley) falls in love with Vanessa (Lynda Purl), the sister of his brother-in-law Curt (Tom Bower). Unfortunately, Vanessa arrives on the mountain with considerable "baggage": she has deserted her husband to pursue a singing career. Blind to Vanessa's fickle, opportunistic nature Read More

1977
The Waltons: The Celebration

Synopsis: The Waltons decide to hold a big celebration to commemorate the final payment on their mortgage and a lucrative new lumber contract. But in the midst of all the revelry, the family discovers that someone else is having a streak of very bad luck--namely, storekeeper Ike Godsey (Joe Conley), without Read More

1977
The Waltons: The First Casualty

Synopsis: With America's entry into WW2 still several months away, Mary Ellen's husband Curt (Tom Bower) is drafted in to the US Army Medical Corps, while Erin's erstwhile soldier boyfriend G.W. (David Doremus) returns on furlough. At the same time, Jason's rambunctious pal Yancy (Robert Donner) decides to Read More

1977
The Waltons: The Search

Synopsis: While driving through a particularly treacherous stretch of woods, Olivia (Michael Learned) and her two youngest children Elizabeth (Kami Cotler) and Jim-Bob (David W. Harper) are stranded by a flat tire. In their efforts to find their way home, the three Waltons end up getting lost. After briefly Read More

1976
The Waltons: The Shivaree

Synopsis: Olivia Walton's namesake Young Olivia (Deborah White) brings her city-bred husband Bob (Bruce Davison) to Walton's Mountain for their wedding. Realizing that Bob would neither understand nor appreciate the old mountain custom of the "shivaree", in which the local boys kidnap the groom on his Read More

1975
The Waltons: The Song

Synopsis: Hoping to woo and win a girl named Sally Ann Harper (played by Happy Days' Erin Moran), Ben (Eric Scott) recommends her to Jason (Jon Walmsley) as a band singer, and even suggests that she introduce Jason's latest song "Will You Be Mine" (actually written by Walmsley). The scheme backfires Read More

1975
The Waltons: The Intruders