And Christopher Lee is also still alive, is 90 years old and keeps working in big budget films (he had a cameo in this summer's DARK SHADOWS and will be be seen reprising his role of Saruman in THE HOBBIT this coming December!). Check the 90 reasons why this 90 year old horror legend is awesome: http://news.moviefone.com/2012/05/24/christopher-lee-90th-birthday_n_1543929.html
Apparently some of you assholes arent getting the point. Brimley was an old man in 1985. Well at least he looked it.
Have you heard of something called 'make-up' and 'acting'? In 1982 he was in The Thing and didn't looked geriatric like his role three years later in Cocoon.
:bears: I was amazed when I first saw that this was an internet meme. My buddies and I used to joke about Brimley, Quaker Oats and the way in which pronounced "Diabetes" back in the 90s when he first started doing those commercials
Yes, he does. I have seen people in their forties that look way older and viceversa. I for example am 53 and look younger. When I recently revealed my age to this younger lady I know for years, she couldn't believe it and thought I was joking. She thought I was just 40!
I HAVE to turn it about ME, dammit!! :egypt: Seriously, it was just an example of how some people don't look like their real age: some look older, others younger. Wilford Brimley always looked older than he was. Look at him at age 42 as Horace in The Waltons, a role he played from 1976-1977:
Well AntAKnee, you were making good head way for a minute there. Unfortunately Panchy came around and brought us all to our senses. Apparently Willford Brimley is just a regular old dude who ain't died yet and not some alien, vampire, or whatever the hell you were going with this.