FrameThrower · Actors · Wilford Brimley
Wilford Brimley
4 films · 215 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1982–1994
Born 27 September 1934 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA · died 1 August 2020
Anthony Wilford Brimley 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.
How their films are shot
Measured across 215 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Wilford takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Wilford takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 215 frames from Wilford Brimley's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.