John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film “The Thing” saw Brimley bring a very different energy to his role as Dr.
Roger Ebert singled him out for praise for his work as “a lawman who takes brusque command of an informal hearing” in the climactic scenes of the movie “and reduces everyone but Newman to quivering surrender.” In Sydney Pollack’s 1981 journalistic ethics drama “Absence of Malice,” starring Sally Field and Paul Newman, for example, Brimley had essentially one scene - but it was the key one, and he truly dominated it. In Barry Levinson’s nostalgic period baseball movie “The Natural” (1984), Brimley brought a welcome characterfulness to his role as the team manager Pop Fisher that the bland hero played by Robert Redford utterly lacked. The actor had a habit of creating memorable performances even in relatively small roles.
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