With Brimley - a blacksmith, rodeo rider, Hollywood extra and bodyguard for Howard Hughes before he made it as an actor - what you saw was what you got. On television, Brimley starred on the 1986-88 NBC family drama Our House as a retired widower who, after the death of his son, takes in his daughter-in-law ( Deidre Hall) and her three kids (the oldest was Shannen Doherty).Įarlier, he had a recurring role on the legendary CBS family drama The Waltons as the soft-spoken Walton’s Mountain resident Horace Brimley. I’m sad that I will no longer get to hear my friend’s wonderful stories. He had a tough exterior and a tender heart. “He said what he meant and he meant what he said. “Wilford Brimley was a man you could trust,” Bensky noted.
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