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He became an established character actor in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), and Cocoon (1985). Brimley was known for playing characters at times much older than his age. He was the long-term face of American television advertisements for the Quaker Oats ...
Cocoon is a 1985 American science fiction comedy drama film directed by Ron Howard and written by Tom Benedek from a story by David Saperstein. [6] The film stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison, and follows a group of elderly people rejuvenated ...
Don Ameche (/ ə ˈ m iː tʃ i /; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) [1] was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian.After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935.
Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from stunt performer to star of film such as “Cocoon” and “The Natural,” has died. Brimley's manager Lynda Bensky said the actor died Saturday ...
Guttenberg was born on August 24, 1958 [1] in Brooklyn, New York. [2] He is the only son (he has his two sisters) of Ann Iris (née Newman), a surgical assistant, and Jerome Stanley Guttenberg, an electrical engineer.
Cocoon: The Return is a 1988 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and written by Stephen McPherson. The film serves as the sequel to the 1985 film Cocoon . All of the starring actors from the first film reprised their roles in this film, although Brian Dennehy only appears in one scene at the end of the film.
Cocooning, also known as the Cocoon Strategy, [1] ... in 87-100% of all deaths caused by pertussis, the victim is an infant of less than 6 months of age, too young to ...
Oliver had minor roles in television and film, until starring as Bastian in the 1984 movie The NeverEnding Story.Subsequently, he was cast as the lead in Tim Burton's short film Frankenweenie [1] and as the cyborg "Daryl" in the 1985 film D.A.R.Y.L., a part for which he won a Saturn Award.