No-o-o-o! Wilford Brimley Is Dead At 85

RIP to a colorful character. To you he was a mere man, but in Scoopianity he was the second-most important person, right after the Shat himself. His birthday is one of the holidays on the Scoopy Calendar.

2 thoughts on “No-o-o-o! Wilford Brimley Is Dead At 85

  1. Wilford Brimley played the character of Harold W. Smith in the film Remo Williams the Adventure Begins. The film was based on a series of novels originally written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir about an assassin working for a super secret organization set up by JFK to defend the U.S. Constitution by working outside of it. The organization, named CURE, is known about by it’s director, Harold W. Smith, the enforcement arm/assassin Remo Williams, and the president of the United States. Throughout the novels Remo is trained in Sinanju, explained as the source of all martial arts. He is trained by Chiun the reigning Master of Sinanju. Chiun is played by Joel Grey in the film, something really unthinkable today. I loved those novels growing up. The real beauty of them was how satirical they were. There were over 150 published and some of them, depending on the ghost writer, were awful. It was as though a ghost writer was hired, given the above description and began writing without reading any of the previous novels. But the majority of them were quite enjoyable, some downright hysterical. I never thought Wilford Brimley did a good job of playing the Harold Smith as described in the novels. But that’s the role I thought of first upon hearing of his death. RIP.

  2. When I was a kid in the 1980s, Wilford Brimley frightened me into eating Quaker Oats. RIP

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