RIP James Garner...

[FGB]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor James Garner, best known for his prime-time television roles as the wisecracking frontier gambler on "Maverick" and as an ex-con turned private eye on "The Rockford Files," has died at age 86, Los Angeles police confirmed early on Sunday.


https://tv.yahoo.com/news/actor-james-garner-86-found-dead-los-angeles-112007904.html

 

[Balladeer08]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor James Garner, best known for his prime-time television roles as the wisecracking frontier gambler on "Maverick" and as an ex-con turned private eye on "The Rockford Files," has died at age 86, Los Angeles police confirmed early on Sunday.


https://tv.yahoo.com/news/actor-james-garner-86-found-dead-los-angeles-112007904.html

Great actor, I grew up watching him in Maverick. And he was perfect for the role of the scrounger in The Great Escape. People used to rush home to catch the start of The Rockford Files to here what was going to be on his answering machine that week.

He's one of the people I wished I looked like.

 

[about_average]

About 11 hours late
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1057875

 

[FGB]

About 11 hours late
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1057875

Normal.

My mother, RIP always said that I would be late to my own funeral.

 

[about_average]

Normal.

My mother, RIP always said that I would be late to my own funeral.

I'd say that's the best one to be late to.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I think he deserves more than one thread.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

I think he deserves more than one thread.

I'm not surprised. You thought I deserved more than 52.....

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I'm not surprised. You thought I deserved more than 52.....

#noonegivesashit.

 

[Adre]

I can almost hear Angel crying out in protest, "Jimmy, it wasn't me."

 

[rider81]

Great actor, very nice man by all accounts.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/m/a/v/maverick-serie-tv-1957-03-g.jpg

 

[toubab]

http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/m/a/v/maverick-serie-tv-1957-03-g.jpg

I'll bet not too many here know one of Garner's co-stars on Maverick was Roger Moore. He's getting up there in years also.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

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I cant believe he wasn't queer, and stayed married 58 years. Deviant!

 

[about_average]

Well, he was a definite liberal, so that should make you happy.

 

[Balladeer08]

I re-watched the Great Escape, just to see Garner in a role I thought he really owned.

During that a memory surfaced, and I looked it up.

Garner served in the Army, fought in Korea and received two Purple Hearts for his wounds.

Made me think about the differences in generations of actors.

Jimmy Stewart served in WWII & Vietnam. Glenn Ford, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Lee Marvin.

Those are just the ones who came to mind.

Maybe this should have it's own thread.

But I wanted to point out that James Garner was not just a great actor and a nice guy, he was a real man.

 

[ryan8558]

I re-watched the Great Escape, just to see Garner in a role I thought he really owned.

During that a memory surfaced, and I looked it up.

Garner served in the Army, fought in Korea and received two Purple Hearts for his wounds.

Made me think about the differences in generations of actors.

Jimmy Stewart served in WWII & Vietnam. Glenn Ford, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Lee Marvin.

Those are just the ones who came to mind.

Maybe this should have it's own thread.

But I wanted to point out that James Garner was not just a great actor and a nice guy, he was a real man.

Check out this site, quite interesting

http://www.pinterest.com/catherineligon/world-war-iihollywood-actors-and-actress-fought-in/

 

[about_average]

Garner served in the Army, fought in Korea and received two Purple Hearts for his wounds.

Watch the video I linked to in the other thread, he talks about them.