Pensacon 2020 takes place on 28th February to 1st March 2020 and attending the show will be a star of Ewoks: Battle For Endor.
Pensacon is pleased to welcome from The China Syndrome, Cocoon, The Thing, The Natural, Ewoks: The Battle For Endor and much more – the legendary Wilford Brimley!
After serving in the Marines and doing a variety of jobs including ranch hand and wrangler, Wilford Brimley became an extra for Westerns, 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).
His first credited feature film performance was in The China Syndrome (1979) as Ted Spindler, a friend and coworker of plant shift supervisor Jack Godell (portrayed by Jack Lemmon). Later, Brimley made a brief, but pivotal, appearance in Absence of Malice (1981) as the curmudgeonly, outspoken Assistant U.S. Attorney James A. Wells.
He expanded on this cantankerous persona as Pop Fisher, world-weary manager of a slumping baseball team, in The Natural (1984). Shortly thereafter, Brimley secured his first leading role in Ron Howard’s Cocoon (1985), portraying Ben Luckett, leader of a group of geriatrics who encounter a magically reinvigorating swimming pool by their retirement home.
In 1985, Brimley entered the Star Wars universe playing the gruff, but good-hearted Noa Briqualon in the TV movie Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.
