farewell james garner
 

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always enjoyed him in whatever role he played. my favorites were 'support your local gunfighter' 'and victor/victoria'.

Favorite by far was James Rockford

Remember my mom saying, 'you want to live in a trailer when you grow up?' and me thinking, 'yea, on the beach with a Firebird in front'.

Never lived on the beach, in a trailer or had a Firebird but did somehow end up with his job. :)

RIP

I like Rockford Files as well, he seemed like a good man. RIP

My husband is an Oklahoma native; one of his friends posted this today on her FB page:

"James Garner was a man among men. I met James when I was hired as Leilani's stand-in for "Barbarians at the Gate." James heard that I was newly arrived from Oklahoma, and ordered my set chair moved next to his. He told me that Hollywood could be particularly hard for young ladies; he said it was his duty to protect a lass from home. For the next six weeks (and a few later pick up days), I'd be greeted with that beautification smile, those twinkling eyes of his, and a call of "Hello, darlin'," as I would begin my day. "

Class act all the way.

A true gentleman and like GR says, A class act.

Remember Rockford files I think Sunday night on NBC after Disney and Wild Kingdom. I think it used to alternate with Colombo...

:tro: I remember.....RIP Mr. Garner

RIP James...loved all your work...Maverick and Rockford Files, never missed an episode...you will be missed..

Movies of note..
The Notebook 2004, romantic tearjerker..have watched it several times, wifey love it..

Barbarians at the Gate 1993..James Garner has never been better as charming, covetous CEO F. Ross Johnson...great performance by his adversary Jonathan Pryce..

The Great Escape has to be my favorite James Garner movie. He was really good as the scrounger.

:tro:

He also was a decorated Korean war vet:tro:

Support Your Local Sherriff is one of my favorite comedy westerns, and the Rockford Files role suited him to a tee. And what a driver! In high school my friends and I did our best to emulate what we called his "Rockford turns," which I later discovered are called j-turns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pruex3pgX1g (the fun begins at 0:33)

My Dad: The guy at the tire store says that the steel belts in the front tires are messed up. Any idea why?
Me: (shrugging) I don't know...

I'm going to have to find Grand Prix so I can watch it again. Best racing movie ever.

Great actor, classy guy. Heaven's a lot brighter.

Victor/Victoria was always one of my favorites along with him being Jim Rockford, Maverick, and in Space Cowboys.

I've always found Tank to be very underrated film.

He made a pretty good chick flick in "Murphy's Romance" with Sally Field. He also made a pretty good suspense type war movie too. Can't think of the name of it, but he played an American Army Officer that had knowledge of when and where the D Day Invasion was going to occur. Germans tried to trick him into revealing the info.

Think he was in Judgment at Nuremberg, non-speaking part, I think a juror...Great movie btw...don't remember the one you can't remember either.

The name of it was "36" hours and his co-stars were Rod Taylor and Eva Marie Saint. I just looked at something called Ranker. Didn't rank it very high. 15th best movie he was in. Great Escape ranked best. Murphy's Romance 2nd. That's ok. I enjoyed it. What do they know. They even ranked his movies with Doris Day higher.:eek:

where did his support your local gunfighter/sheriff movies rank? just watched v/v again the other day. love that movie. was always a fan of robert preston-and of course julie andrews along with garner. just a fun movie!

Here is the list:
http://www.ranker.com/list/james-gar...aphy/reference

3rd for Sheriff 7th for Gunfighter

How could I have forgotten "Skin Game?" :eek: Must be age (mine). Tremendous movie.

he was in 'twilight'?!

good god!