Actor: Wilford Brimley

Wilford Brimley worked as a ranch hand, farrier and bodyguard for Howard Hughes before acting, and never lost the bearing.

The Thing gives him Blair, whose breakdown is the film’s turning point, and The China Syndrome and The Natural give him institutional authority.

Cocoon made him a family-film fixture, and he became widely known in the United States for diabetes advertisements. He was a serious cattle rancher throughout and appeared irritated by the entire film industry.