Posted on 07/20/2014 4:04:40 AM PDT by blueyon
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Hollywood actor James Garner, star of The Rockford Files and The Notebook has died at the age of 86, according to reports.
Garner was found dead when an ambulance arrived at his Los Angeles home around 8pm on Saturday, TMZ reports.
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Indeed, sadly, it has become very rare. May you and MrD enjoy many more wonderful years together! :-)
Carrol Shelby was deeply involved with the movie and called James Garner a natural race car driver.
I always had the feeling that he wasn’t acting-—just getting dressed for what he does-—especially in the movie TANK. But my all time favorite Maverick role was the western gambling scene where he sat down at the card table swearing he was un-armed. then had to get back up and undress all his concealed pieces. Except the one he finished the game with. That scene writes the book on concealed weapons. I hope they let him take a boot gun with him. Carry on and Semper Fi
I met him buying a tie at J. C. Penney’s in the Glendale Galleria in 1977. He was dressed in a 3-piece suit, and I suspect he had just walked off the set of “Rockford”.
I’ve noticed for many years that they don’t make actors and country singers like that any more. Back about 1966 I started noticing that all the good ones were WW II vets. Most never said a word about it. Audie Murphy is one of the few I can think of who actually did a performance publicly related to it.
Our current crop of actors/country singers are mostly sniffy punks who can’t hold their likker let alone relate to their own roles/songs. I haven’t watched a whole new movie in maybe two decades and some of my music library is still on VHS and cassettes. Gonna miss Maverick along with the rest.
RIP, Maverick.
88 ... Saw a long interview with the man and he seemed like a regular guy who didn’t take himself too seriously. No matter his politics impossible not to respect his contribution to the war effort in WWII and in Korea.
Perfect.
I recall somewhere he was no fan of Ronald Reagan. Must have been after RWR's tenure as president of the Screen Actors' Guild, 1947-1952, and after RWR switched from the Democrat Party to the GOP ca. 1960s.
. ...He voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, and calls him "the most intelligent presidential candidate we've ever had. I think Obama runs a close second." James Garner Memoirs.
RIP. Great actor.
We will miss you so much Jim! RIP! I’m sure Angel will try to get some freebie! So watch out!
-PJ
Don’t know much about Adlai, but we should never think nobama is not very intelligent. Now that said, intelligence alone does not make a good leader. In fact, intelligence alone gives us “unwise” and arrogant fools like Wilson, FDR and nobama, who couldn’t hit their butts with both hands in any practical sense.
I still watch his Maverick re-runs ,, but when he got together with Jack Elam ,, who went on to become a famous cowboy actor in spaghetti Western movies . His own words at the ending of the movie “Support your local gunfighter” ,, while riding the train out of Purgatory . That cracks me up ,,, Elam one of the best bad guys the west ever saw coming or going . We still have Clint Eastwood though . I know I’m gettin’ old when most of my western heros are pushing daisies up out of the ground . I’ll be 69 Aug. 18 and lovin’ life .
He and Steve McQueen together. Two of the best real man never got big headed actors ever.
Real name, Bumgarner.
"During my trips to the Looney Left Coast in my quest for fame and fortune in Hollywood, I never met James Garner. I did audition for a small part in his film, A Man Called Sledge but did not get picked."
Neat. Looking on IMDB, all the minor roles appear to have went to Italians.
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