Actor Wilford Brimley, known for ‘Coc00n’ and diabetes ads, dead at 85
By Ken Garger
August 2, 2020 | 12:12am
Wilford Brimley in 2017Getty Images
Actor Wilford Brimley, known for his role in TV ads promoting diabetes awareness, died in a Utah hospital Saturday morning. He was 85.
“Wilford Brimley was a man you could trust. He said what he meant and he meant what he said. I’m sad that I will no longer get to hear my friend’s wonderful stories. He was one of a kind,” Brimley’s representative, Lynda Bensky, told Newsweek.
Brimley had been on dialysis at the time of his death and battled other medical conditions, Bensky said.
He suffered from diabetes mellitus, which prompted him to appear in American Diabetes Foundation commercials to educate the public about the disorder.
On the big screen, he was best known for playing Ben Luckett in the 1985 film “Coc00n.”
He also famously made down-home TV commercials for Quaker Oats.
DIABEETUS: Wilford Brimley is dead at 85. From DIABEETUS? Who knows...
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Thought this man had been dead at least 10 years
RIP to the diabetus man
RIP to the diabetus man
CodeKansas
Superstar
Hold the fukk up...
Coc00n
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Coc00n
EDIT:
He JUST died? 
Somebody tag that guy that used him as a avi for years. Diabeetus or something
I honestly thought he passed away years ago..rip old man
Mandatory
I found out my wife been dead for 6 years who the hell did I hit
I found out my wife been dead for 6 years who the hell did I hit
wow i thought he had been dead
Doobie Doo
Veteran
Is this the Mandela effect? I thought the same shyt.
He will always be the crazy old guy who snaps in The Thing.
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Gave them dyabeatus a hell of a fight
I was trying to remember where I know him from, some poster's avi on the Coli
O³ (O cubed)
No more PAWGs, PLEASE??!!!??
If he was 85 even be died then he was in his 50s when Coc00n came out.
RIP. Dude was a good actor.
Remember him mostly from The Thing remake.
Remember him mostly from The Thing remake.