Wilford Brimley

Wilford Brimley

Born: September 27, 1934
Died: August 1, 2020
in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Anthony Wilford Brimley (September 27, 1934 – August 1, 2020) was an American actor and singer. After serving in the Marines and taking on a variety of odd jobs, he became an extra for Western films, and in little more than a decade he had established himself as a character actor in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), and The Natural (1984). Brimley was the longtime face of television advertisements for the Quaker Oats Company. He also promoted diabetes education and appeared in related commercials for Liberty Medical.

Movies for Wilford Brimley...

I Believe
Title: I Believe
Character: Pastor
Released: June 6, 2019
Type: Movie
A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.
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Timber the Treasure Dog
Title: Timber the Treasure Dog
Character: Hawk Jones
Released: February 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.
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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Title: Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Character: Earl Granger
Released: December 17, 2009
Type: Movie
New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the trouble they find themselves in after witnessing a murder. To protect them from an assassin, federal agents whisk away Paul and Meryl to a small town in Wyoming, where their marriage will crash and burn, or their passion will reignite.
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Pitcher and the Pin-Up
Title: Pitcher and the Pin-Up
Character: Coach Weaver
Released: June 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life-long friends. During their teen years, they cling to each other for love and security, but as they grow older, their lives take different paths. Danny fills the void in his heart with his passion and love for America's favorite pastime. Melissa, filled with the insecurities of her youth, struggles to find the strength to pursue her childhood dreams. Although apart, their lives are forever connected. Like a glorious seven-game world series, "Pitcher and the Pin-Up" is a story of imperishable hope, courage, faith, love, and coming home.
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The Round and Round
Title: The Round and Round
Character: Governor
Released: June 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A state proposes a law banning cock fights.
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Brigham City
Title: Brigham City
Character: Stu
Released: March 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Wes Clayton is a lawman and a bishop in a Mormon community called Brigham. The town is shaken when a woman from California is found murdered. Clayton and his young deputy work with an FBI agent sent to investigate. As a civil and spiritual leader in the frightened town, Clayton must uncover the town's deepest secrets, find the murderer and keep Brigham from ripping itself apart.
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Crossfire Trail
Title: Crossfire Trail
Character: Joe Gill
Released: January 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Title: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Character: Deputy Sheriff Ambrose Scraggs
Released: January 20, 2001
Type: Movie
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
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Comanche
Title: Comanche
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The heart warming true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn... the horse named Comanche.
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Lunker Lake
Title: Lunker Lake
Released: December 12, 1998
Type: Movie
A puppet-starring fish story.
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Summer of the Monkeys
Title: Summer of the Monkeys
Character: Grandpa Sam Ferrans
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
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Progeny
Title: Progeny
Character: Dr. David Wetherly
Released: March 30, 1998
Type: Movie
An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
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All My Friends Are Cowboys
Title: All My Friends Are Cowboys
Character: Charlie
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
All My Friends Are Cowboys is a musical play based on the formative years of Kelly C. Crabb, who worked on a livestock farm in Utah before becoming an author and entertainment lawyer. The show was produced for television by PBS, and featured performances by Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Wilford Brimley, Joe Diffie and (in his final taped appearance) Roy Rogers.
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A Place to Grow
Title: A Place to Grow
Character: Jake
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Following his brother's death, a musician returns home to the farm. He intends to sell it, but over the course of his visit, develops an appreciation for the hands-on, old-style method of farming that goes on there. As he spends more time on the farm, he begins to suspect that his brother's death might not have occurred the way he'd first thought, and that foul play might have been involved. A heart-rending drama of love, loss, and the value of family, A Place to Grow will touch your heart. Starring stage and screen stalwart, Wilford Brimley (The Natural, In & Out).
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In & Out
Title: In & Out
Character: Frank Brackett
Released: September 10, 1997
Type: Movie
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
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My Fellow Americans
Title: My Fellow Americans
Character: Joe Hollis
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperately frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.
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Last of the Dogmen
Title: Last of the Dogmen
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1995
Type: Movie
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
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The Good Old Boys
Title: The Good Old Boys
Character: C.C. Tarpley
Released: March 5, 1995
Type: Movie
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
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Title: OP Center
Character: Adm. Troy Davis
Released: February 26, 1995
Type: TV
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve them
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OP Center
Title: OP Center
Character: Adm. Troy Davis
Released: February 26, 1995
Type: Movie
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve them
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Mutant Species
Title: Mutant Species
Character: Devro
Released: January 19, 1995
Type: Movie
A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a remote wooded area. An army team is sent to recover it. One of the men is infected and mutates into a monster, killing most of the rest of the team. One man escapes with the help of a brother & sister who live in the woods. He then tries to stop his former buddy, while also fighting against another army team sent in to destroy everything. The bio-material was supposed to create a super-soldier, was banned, and the crash of the rocket appears to have been deliberate so the experiment could proceed. But who is behind it all? And will others be infected?
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Heaven Sent
Title: Heaven Sent
Character: Security Guard
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and save his mom.
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The Firm
Title: The Firm
Character: William Devasher
Released: June 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
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Hard Target
Title: Hard Target
Character: Uncle Douvee
Released: April 27, 1993
Type: Movie
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
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Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Burt Mueller
Released: April 21, 1993
Type: TV
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
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Title: Homicide: Life on the Street
Character: Harry 'The Admiral' Prentice
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: TV
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
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Title: The Boys of Twilight
Character: Bill Huntoon
Released: February 29, 1992
Type: TV
The Boys of Twilight is an American televisions series that aired on CBS in 1992. The series follows the adventures of two aging lawmen who attemps to maintain order in Twilight, Utah.
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Where The Red Fern Grows Part 2
Title: Where The Red Fern Grows Part 2
Character: Grandpa Will
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An embittered WWII veteran returns to his grandfather's home in the Louisiana woods. The old man helps his grandson readjust by giving him two hound dog puppies to care for.
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Blood River
Title: Blood River
Character: U.S. Marshal Winston Patrick Culler
Released: March 17, 1991
Type: Movie
Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan's vengeance, he goes to ground in the mountains and meets Winston Patrick Culler, an old trapper, who becomes his traveling companion and protector. Jimmy doesn't understand though why Culler is helping him...
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Eternity
Title: Eternity
Character: King / Eric
Released: November 15, 1990
Type: Movie
TV producer James has an extremely vivid dream, in which he is a prince struggling to keep the kingdom at peace against the wishes of his warfaring brother, while at the same time competing with his brother for a woman's love. The figures in his dream match those in his real life, with his brother being an aggressive business man trying to buy James out, the king being James' advisor, and the woman being an actress recently cast for a commercial at his studio. Seeing his dreams as a message about his life, James decides to act on their guidance, even though they lead him into the fight of his life.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Postmaster General Henry Atkins
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid
Title: Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid
Character: Gov. Lew Wallace
Released: May 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
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Cocoon: The Return
Title: Cocoon: The Return
Character: Ben Luckett
Released: September 13, 1988
Type: Movie
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
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End of the Line
Title: End of the Line
Character: Will Haney
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: Movie
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
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Title: Our House
Character: Gus Witherspoon
Released: September 11, 1986
Type: TV
Our House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from September 11, 1986 to May 8, 1988. The series centers on the Witherspoon family and the challenges they face adjusting to life with three generations living in the same house.
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Act of Vengeance
Title: Act of Vengeance
Character: Tony Boyle
Released: September 4, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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Thompson's Last Run
Title: Thompson's Last Run
Character: Red Haines
Released: February 16, 1986
Type: Movie
A hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life sentence as a habitual criminal is freed at gunpoint by his niece. The police man, who was transferring him and has been the con's adversary for over 30 years, vows to catch the twosome.
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Jackals
Title: Jackals
Character: Sheriff Mitchell
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Cops in a small town near the Mexican border find themselves caught up in a scheme that smuggles illegal aliens into the country.
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Shadows on the Wall
Title: Shadows on the Wall
Character: Floyd Buckman
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A reporter becomes the target of a murderer when he starts investigating a fifty-year-old murder/suicide case.
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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Title: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Character: Noa
Released: November 24, 1985
Type: Movie
The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and meet Teek in the forest, a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in which an old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel, he also crashed with his Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Title: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Character: Harold Smith
Released: October 11, 1985
Type: Movie
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.
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Murder in Space
Title: Murder in Space
Character: Dr. Andrew McCallister
Released: July 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.
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Cocoon
Title: Cocoon
Character: Benjamin Luckett
Released: June 21, 1985
Type: Movie
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
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Terror in the Aisles
Title: Terror in the Aisles
Character: Dr. Blair (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Country
Title: Country
Character: Otis
Released: September 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but Jewell decides to fight for her family.
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The Natural
Title: The Natural
Character: Pop Fisher
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
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The Stone Boy
Title: The Stone Boy
Character: George Jansen
Released: April 4, 1984
Type: Movie
12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene live with their family on a farm in Montana. In an accident, Eugene is killed by Arnold's gun. Isolated from emotions he cannot comprehend, Arnold now has to come to terms with his grieving family - including his father, mother, hostile uncle, and grandfather - while his family has to come to terms with Arnold.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Title: The Hotel New Hampshire
Character: Iowa Bob
Released: March 9, 1984
Type: Movie
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
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Harry and Son
Title: Harry and Son
Character: Tom Keach
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.
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Tough Enough
Title: Tough Enough
Character: Bill Long
Released: May 20, 1983
Type: Movie
An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world.
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High Road to China
Title: High Road to China
Character: Bradley Tozer
Released: March 18, 1983
Type: Movie
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
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10 to Midnight
Title: 10 to Midnight
Character: Clem Malone
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades the law with his strong alibis. Veteran detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy's guilt and begins using questionable methods to catch him.
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Tender Mercies
Title: Tender Mercies
Character: Harry
Released: March 4, 1983
Type: Movie
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
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The Thing
Title: The Thing
Character: Blair
Released: June 25, 1982
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
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Death Valley
Title: Death Valley
Character: The Sheriff
Released: May 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
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Absence of Malice
Title: Absence of Malice
Character: James J. Wells
Released: November 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
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Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
Title: Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
Character: Wally Haskell
Released: January 29, 1981
Type: Movie
The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.
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Borderline
Title: Borderline
Character: Scooter Jackson
Released: December 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.
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Rodeo Girl
Title: Rodeo Girl
Character: Bingo Gibbs
Released: September 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a housewife. So she becomes an aspiring rodeo rider herself, encouraged by her one-time performer mother, and eventually confronts her new lifestyle, despite her husband's disapproval. Based on the true story of rodeo champion Sue Pirtle.
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Roughnecks
Title: Roughnecks
Character: Willie Clayton
Released: July 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Ida McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. A contentious crew of wildcatters arrives, including a stalwart drilling magnate, his tool-pusher and a young roughneck associate, who endeavor to save the ranching empire by trying to bring in a methane gas well.
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Brubaker
Title: Brubaker
Character: Rogers - Prison Board
Released: June 20, 1980
Type: Movie
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Amber Waves
Title: Amber Waves
Character: Pete Alberts
Released: March 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
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The Electric Horseman
Title: The Electric Horseman
Character: Farmer
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
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The Wild Wild West Revisited
Title: The Wild Wild West Revisited
Character: President Grover Cleveland
Released: May 9, 1979
Type: Movie
The intrepid team of Old West government intelligence agents are brought out of retirement after 10 years to hunt down a cunning new adversary, the son of their former archenemy, who is suspected of cloning imposters to be substituted for the crowned heads of Europe and perhaps even the President of the United States.
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The China Syndrome
Title: The China Syndrome
Character: Ted Spindler
Released: March 16, 1979
Type: Movie
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
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Title: The Awakening Land
Character: Jude McWhirter
Released: February 19, 1978
Type: TV
A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.
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Title: The Oregon Trail
Released: September 21, 1977
Type: TV
The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
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Title: How the West Was Won
Character: Sheriff Daniels
Released: February 6, 1977
Type: TV
The Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.
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Title: How the West Was Won
Released: February 6, 1977
Type: TV
The Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.
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Title: Kung Fu
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: TV
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
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Title: The Waltons
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Title: The Waltons
Character: Horace Brimley
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Lawman
Title: Lawman
Character: Marc Corman
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
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True Grit
Title: True Grit
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.