Television
| Year | Show | Episode | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Waltons | The Five-Foot Shelf | Horace Brimley | |
| 1975 | The Waltons | The Song | Horace Brimley | |
| 1977 | The Waltons | The Heartbreaker, The Hawk, The First Casualty, The Celebration | Horace Brimley | |
| 1977 | The Oregon Trail | Hard Ride Home and The Last Game | Unnamed role | |
| 1986 | Our House | All | Gus Witherspoon | |
| 1992 | The Boys of Twilight | All | Bill Huntoon | |
| 1995 | Walker, Texas Ranger | War Zone | Burt Mueller | |
| 1997 | Seinfeld | #161 - The Junk Mail | United States Postmaster General Henry Atkins | Brimley parodied himself in his role as an assistant attorney general in Absence of Malice |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)