'Cocoon' actor Wilford Brimley dies age 85

ROME -- Franca Valeri, an elegant, ironic and versatile actor who pioneered female comic roles in Italy's post-war years and helped the nation laugh at its foibles, has died at 100. The Corriere della Sera newspaper quoted her daughter, Stefania Bonfadelli, an opera singer, as saying that Valeri died Sunday in her sleep at her home in Rome, nine days after her 100th birthday.

Ellise Shafer editorBrent Carver, an actor best known for winning a Tony award for his 1993 performance in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” died on Tuesday in Cranbrook, B.C., according to his family. He was 68.The Canadian actor had a long career in theater, television and film, beginning in 1972 with a stage production of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.” In 1978, he acted opposite a 15-year-old Michael J.

Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from movie stunt rider to an indelible character actor who brought gruff charm, and sometimes menace, to a range of films that included Cocoon, The Natural and The Firm, has died aged 85.

Reni Santoni has sadly died, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Shannen Doherty paid tribute to her friend and late co-star Wilford Brimley shortly after his death this week at age 85. The actress appeared alongside Brimley in the 1986 NBC drama “Our House.” The show aired for two seasons and focused on Brimley's character as a retired widower who invites his daughter-in-law and her three children to move in with him following the death of his son.

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.

Shannen Doherty is paying tribute to Wilford Brimley, who she starred with on Our House.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerDeidre Hall and Shannen Doherty, who appeared with Wilford Brimley on the 1980s NBC series Our House, lovingly remembered him in Instagram posts Sunday.Our House ran for two seasons on NBC from 1986 to 1988.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerDeidre Hall, who appeared with Wilford Brimley on the 1980s NBC series Our House, remembered him as a “great one” in an Instagram post Sunday morning.Our House ran for two seasons on NBC from 1986 to 1988. The drama detailed the life of the Witherspoons, a family adjusting to three generations living in the same house.“We lost a great one yesterday,” Hall wrote.

RIP #WilfordBrimley We didn’t always see eye 2 eye but I owe this Cocoon scene to Wilfred who asked me to throw out the script & let him improvise while fishing w/the boy.

American actor and singer Wilford Brimley, 85, who has appeared on many TV shows like The Firm, and In & Out has died. Brimley died Saturday while hospitalized in St.

Wilford Brimley was a character actor known for his gruff and grumpy persona in movies including “Cocoon” and “The Natural,” television shows such as “The Waltons” and “Our House,” and commercials for Quaker Oats and Liberty Medical’s supplies for diabetes patients. Brimley began his acting career relatively late in life and hadn’t dreamed of being on the silver screen as a young man. Instead, the Salt Lake City native had a career working with horses after serving in the U.S.

Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from movie stunt rider to an indelible character actor who brought gruff charm, and sometimes menace, to a range of films that included “Cocoon”, “The Natural” and “The Firm”, has died. He was 85.

Wilford Brimley has died at the age of 85. The actor - who starred in films such as 'Cocoon', 'The China Syndrome', 'The Thing', and 'The Natural' - died at his home in Utah on Saturday morning (01.08.20).

Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from movie stunt rider to an indelible character actor who brought gruff charm, and sometimes menace, to a range of films that included “Cocoon,” “The Natural” and “The Firm,” has died. He was 85.