Wilford Brimley, the actor with the walrus mustache whose down-home geniality seen in such films as Cocoon, The Natural and Absence of Malice endeared him to moviegoers, has died.
He was 85. The Salt Lake City native, who also stood out as the plant foreman who becomes a confidant of Jack Lemmon's character in The China Syndrome (1979), died Saturday morning in a hospital in St.
George, Utah, his manager, Lynda Bensky, toldThe Hollywood Reporter. She said Brimley had been on dialysis and had other medical issues.
He had lived since 2004 on a ranch in Greybull, Wyoming. "Wilford Brimley was a man you could trust," Bensky noted. "He said what he meant and he meant what he said.
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