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James Garner obituary: James Garner dies; TV antihero of 'Maverick,' 'Rockford'If Sam Spade was a tough guy, Jim Rockford was … well, he could throw a punch, but he didn't like to because it hurt his hand. Rockford's idea of a good time was eating Oreos and fishing with his dad, not spending a lost weekend with some smoky blonde. And tough talk just wasn't his thing; when some hood was beating the tar out of him, Rockford sputtered, "Does your mother have any idea what you do for a living?"Still, the perennially broke investigator always managed to set things right, and by the end of every episode of "The Rockford Files," Rockford — a.

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James Garner — also gave viewers something they weren't getting from other tough guy heroes: laughs. Garner, a master of light comedy who won an Emmy as Rockford and earlier had shot to fame as a charming and dry- witted gambler on the hit TV western "Maverick," died Saturday at his Los Angeles home. He was 8. 6. Garner's death was confirmed by his publicist, Jennifer Allen. He underwent quintuple bypass surgery in 1. Dear Readers, As we embark on a new year, I want to take a moment to thank you for reading and to look back at the highlights of 2. Last year, the Los Angeles Times continued its tradition of delivering agenda- setting coverage of local, state, regional, national and international news. Our reporters.. Dear Readers, As we embark on a new year, I want to take a moment to thank you for reading and to look back at the highlights of 2.

Last year, the Los Angeles Times continued its tradition of delivering agenda- setting coverage of local, state, regional, national and international news. Our reporters.. As both Maverick and Rockford, Garner "embodied the crusty, sardonic and self- effacing strain of American masculinity," Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales once wrote. He also was stubborn.

Garner resisted when a studio executive, nervous about ratings, ordered him to dial back Rockford's humor."Humor is what I do best," he told the honcho. That's what people hire me for.. I'm not going to change at the whim of somebody with no experience and no judgment, so either fire me or don't mess with it.""I might have raised my voice a little," Garner recalled in his 2. The Garner Files: A Memoir." "I may have even broken one or two small pieces of furniture."Notable Deaths.

Advanced Disposal - Rockford facility provides trash collection and recycling solutions. View the Davis Junction, IL waste services. If Sam Spade was a tough guy, Jim Rockford was well, he could throw a punch, but he didn't like to because it hurt his hand. Rockford's idea of a good time was. Hector Elizondo interview, biography and videos from the Archive of American Television on acting in Cane, Chicago Hope, Popi, and more. The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and.

Photos of leaders, stars and other notable figures who died in 2. The Oklahoma- born Garner amassed more than 8.

TV- movie credits during his half- century career. An off- screen Hollywood maverick who successfully battled two studios in court, he easily moved between small screen and big screen in roles ranging from light comedy to drama."I have long thought that Jim Garner was one of the best actors around," filmmaker Robert Altman, who directed him in the 1. Health," told Esquire magazine in 1.

He is often overlooked because he makes it look so easy," Altman said, "and that is not easy to do."Garner was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a widowed small- town pharmacist opposite Sally Field's much younger single mother in the 1. Murphy's Romance."His films include "The Children's Hour," "The Great Escape," "The Americanization of Emily," "The Thrill of It All," "Move Over, Darling," "Grand Prix," "Support Your Local Sheriff," "Marlowe," "Victor/Victoria," "Space Cowboys" and "The Notebook."But it was television — including stints as a celebrity pitchman for the Beef Industry Council and, most famously, Polaroid cameras — that made Garner a household name. Garner's seemingly effortless flair for delivering humorous dialogue — and delivering straight dialogue humorously — made him one of television's biggest stars."Television is a close- up, intimate medium: The audience falls in love with Jim as a friend," Brandon Stoddard, then a senior vice president of ABC, told Esquire magazine in 1.

Actress Julie Andrews, with whom Garner starred in "The Americanization of Emily" (1. Victor/Victoria" (1. In her introduction to his book, she called Garner "a man's man, a ladies' man, a good ol' boy in the best sense of the word, a curmudgeon (he'll be the first to tell you)…and a sweetheart.

I don't know a lady who isn't a little bit in love with him."Signed as a contract player at Warner Bros. Watch Star Kid Online IMDB. Garner — a handsome, 6- foot- 3, black- haired Korean War veteran — launched his Hollywood career with guest shots on TV shows such as "Cheyenne" and small parts in a few films. In September 1. 95. Maverick" made its debut on ABC. When its writers began injecting humor into the scripts, Garner handled it with aplomb. As Bret Maverick, the dapper roving gambler, Garner was anything but a traditional western hero: He was, as Garner later put it, a reluctant hero.

The upstart series' tongue- in- cheek formula worked: Within two months of its premiere, it had passed the rival Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen shows in the Sunday- night ratings."Maverick" brought Garner an Emmy nomination for best actor in 1. Emmy for best western series. Maverick" ran until 1. Garner left it in 1.

He had been unhappy with Warner Bros. When he was suspended without pay during a writers strike, he successfully sued and got out of his contract. Turning his attention to movies, Garner formed his own company, Cherokee Productions.

Garner blazed a trail, said Clint Eastwood, who played a heavy in a "Maverick" episode before landing his own TV series, "Rawhide," in 1. Nowadays, television actors become movie stars all the time, but back then, in the late '5. Eastwood said in a 2.

Garner on Turner Classic Movies. There was a sort of prejudice .. Garner starred in 2. Nichols," an NBC western set in 1. Arizona. But then came "The Rockford Files," which ran on NBC from 1. Garner as private eye Jim Rockford. The action- drama was devoid of private- eye cliches.

Instead of a secretary, Rockford had an answering machine, and instead of an office, he worked out of his home — a battered trailer by the beach."If you look at it, he's not a hell of a lot different from Maverick," Garner told Daily Variety in 2. They're antiheroes, both of them, and, for an actor, that's probably the most fun kind of leading man to play."The series earned Garner an Emmy in 1. But the show abruptly ended in 1. Under doctors' orders to take time off because of a bleeding ulcer, Garner could not continue working. In 1. 98. 3, Garner sued Universal for $2. The Rockford Files" syndication and foreign sales.

The case was settled in 1. Garner did not reveal the amount of the settlement. In his memoir, however, he noted that his wife had to keep telling him to wipe the grin off his face.

After leaving "Rockford," Garner devoted most of his professional life to TV movies. He received Emmy nominations for "Heartsounds," "Promise" (a special for which he shared an Emmy for producing), "My Name Is Bill W.," "Decoration Day," "Barbarians at the Gate" and "Breathing Lessons."He also returned to his role as Rockford in eight "Rockford Files" TV movies in the '9. Mel Gibson in the 1. Maverick."In 2. 00. Garner received a life achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.

The youngest of three sons, he was born James Scott Bumgarner on April 7, 1. Norman, Okla. His mother died when he was 4 and his father, who ran a country store, later remarried. It was not a happy home for Garner and his brothers, Charles and Jack. Their stepmother, Garner later recalled, regularly beat them "with anything she could get hold of."Near the end of World War II, the 1.

James Garner of ‘Maverick,’ ‘Rockford Files,’ Dies at 8. Variety. Amiable film and television actor James Garner, who starred in popular television series “Maverick” and “The Rockford Files,” died Saturday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 8. 6. Like many popular leading men of Hollywood’s heyday, Garner boasted all- American good looks and a winning personality that carried him through comedy and drama alike.

Garner won two Emmys and racked up a total of 1. He had his greatest impact in television, first on “Maverick” in the ’5. The Rockford Files,” for which he won an Emmy in 1. He later appeared in several quality telepics including “Promise,” “My Name Is Bill W.” and “Barbarians at the Gate,” as well as the occasional strong feature such as “Victor/Victoria” and “Murphy’s Romance,” for which he captured his sole Oscar nomination for lead actor. APPRECIATION: James Garner Gracefully Bore the Weight of Stardom. Garner found his way to showbiz through a friend, theater producer Paul Gregory: He was employed cueing actor Lloyd Nolan during rehearsals of the Broadway- bound “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.” Garner eventually copped a nonspeaking role in the 1. Henry Fonda. After studying with Herbert Berghof, Garner landed a role in the touring production of “Caine.”Back in Los Angeles in 1.

TV series “Cheyenne.” Impressed, Warner Bros. He paid his dues in supporting roles in “Towards the Unknown,” “The Girl He Left Behind” and “Shootout at Medicine Bend” as well as some TV assignments. He was first really noticeable in a role as Marlon Brando’s pal in “Sayonara,” after which he was assigned a supporting role in “Darby’s Rangers.” When “Darby’s” lead Charlton Heston walked off the film, Garner inherited his first starring role, but reviews were mixed. The real boost to his career came in a role now indelibly associated with him, that of Bret Maverick in the comedic Western that ABC debuted in 1.

Originally the story was to alternate between the Maverick brothers played by Garner and Jack Kelly, but “Maverick” quickly became all about Garner’s character, who used his wits to get out of trouble. Other actors revolved in and out including Clint Eastwood as a vicious gunfighter. Maverick” led to a long relationship between Garner and its creator, Roy Huggins. The actor stayed with the series until 1. Warners.“I’m playing me,” Garner said about the role. Bret Maverick is lazy: I’m lazy.

And I like being lazy.”Lazy or not, the actor shared the Golden Globe for most promising male newcomer in 1. Watch Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour 4Shared. Emmy nomination in 1. Maverick.”In the meantime, Warners was serving him frustrating fare like “Up Periscope” and “Cash Mc. Call.” Taking advantage of a suspension during the Writers Guild strike of 1. Garner sued Warners for breach of contract — and won — allowing him to be a free agent and demand more for his services. He appeared in specials before landing a supporting role in “The Children’s Hour” with Shirley Mac. Laine and Audrey Hepburn.

His roles in films got better: “Boys’ Night Out” and, especially, “The Great Escape” brought him his best notices. He said that he drew on his experience in the Korean War, during which he was the company scrounger, for the latter role.

For a time he seemed ready to inherit the aging Cary Grant’s romantic comedy leading man mantle with such films as “The Thrill of It All” (1. The Wheeler Dealers” and “Move Over Darling.” Arthur Hiller gave him a meatier assignment, in the satire “The Americanization of Emily,” opposite the then- red- hot Julie Andrews. He then nabbed the thriller “3. Watch Blues Brothers 2000 Online (2017). Hours” and a couple of indifferent comedies, “The Art of Love” and “A Man Could Get Killed.”The films were now A- budget, but “Duel at Diablo,” “Mr. Buddwing” and “Grand Prix,” which gave him a yen for car racing, weren’t particularly memorable.

During this period he appeared in Westerns including “Hour of the Gun” (in which he played Wyatt Earp), comedy Western “Support Your Local Sheriff,” “They Only Kill Their Masters,” “Marlowe” and “Skin Game.”But he really scored on TV, where, after the brief NBC Western series “Nichols” in 1. The Rockford Files,” which ran from 1. Emmy in 1. 97. 7 and another four nominations. Huggins teamed with Stephen J. Cannell for the detective series recycling many of the plots from “Maverick.” Many of Garner’s friends had recurring roles in the series, including Joe Santos and Stuart Margolin as his buddies. Margolin said at the time that Garner worked long shifts, did his own stunts and stayed to do off- camera lines for the other cast members. But his old injuries and pay disputes led Garner to call it quits even though the show drew high ratings on NBC.

He again essayed “Bret Maverick” for one season in 1. But a bad back, lawsuits with MCA TV over “Rockford” syndication payments (he eventually settled, reportedly for several million dollars) and, eventually, heart surgery curtailed his ability to endure the rigors of a TV series. He reteamed with Andrews in the Blake Edwards musical “Victor/Victoria” in 1. Sally Field in the comedy/romance “Murphy’s Romance” in 1. He essayed an older Wyatt Earp in Edwards’ “Sunset” opposite Bruce Willis as Tom Mix and did the underwhelming “Fire in the Sky” in 1. In 1. 99. 4 he took a small role in the bigscreen version of “Maverick,” with Mel Gibson in the lead, giving the star a run for his money in the likability department.

In 1. 99. 6 he starred as an ex- president opposite Jack Lemmon in “My Fellow Americans.” The best of his later work, however, came in television in such TV movie dramas as “Heartsounds” with Mary Tyler Moore in 1. Glen Jordan, who also guided him through “Promise” in 1. In 1. 98. 9 he was acclaimed for “My Name Is Bill W.” with James Woods. In the 1. 99. 2 HBO film “Barbarians at the Gate,” the actor offered up a standout chewy performance. Quieter, but no less effective, was “Breathing Lessons” opposite Joanne Woodward. His bigscreen career continued in the 2. Clint Eastwood- helmed veteran astronaut comedy “Space Cowboys,” chick pic “Divine Secrets of the Ya- Ya Sisterhood” and 2.

The Notebook,” in which Garner and Gena Rowlands played the older versions of a couple portrayed by Ryan Gosling and Rachel Mc. Adams. On the smallscreen, Garner recurred on the ABC comedy “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter” from 2. He also voiced God for the short- lived NBC series “God, the Devil and Bob,” played the chief justice in CBS’ Supreme Court drama “First Monday” and portrayed Mark Twain in a 2. Hallmark adaptation of Twain’s novel “Roughing It.”Born James Bumgarner in Norman, Okla., he left high school to become a merchant seaman before moving to Los Angeles, enrolling at Hollywood High and then returning to Norman, where he joined the Oklahoma State National Guard. He briefly went to work in his father’s carpeting business in Los Angeles until being called for duty in the Korean War. He served more than a year in the Korean peninsula and was awarded the Purple Heart before his discharge in 1. He studied business administration at the U.

Oklahoma but left after a semester, ready to move towards acting. Garner starred with Mariette Hartley in a series of noted commercials for Polaroid in the 1. He won the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award in 2. Garner is survived by his wife, the former Lois Clarke, to whom he was married since 1.

Greta “Gigi” Garner; and an adopted daughter, Kimberly, from Clarke’s first marriage.