“My wife would leave me if I played a Republican.”
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James Garner
James Scott Garner was an American actor. He played leading roles in more than fifty theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Grand Prix (1966), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Victor/Victoria (1982), and Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He also starred on television in Maverick and The Rockford Files.
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Born 7 April 1928 · Died 19 July 2014 · Q108510
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2026· 7 entries
“a rented house in the Valley.”
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Football Insider: James Garner sends three-word message as Everton announce Brennan Johnson
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Yahoo Sports: When James Garner is expected to return after surgery as Everton trio ruled out
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nytimes.com: James Garner is Everton’s player of the season. His disappointment at England omission is telling
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Yahoo! Sports: James Garner Breaks Silence On £50M Everton Target: Does He Make Sense For The Toffees?
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Deadline.com: David Boreanaz Got James Garner’s Daughter’s Blessing On ‘Rockford Files’ Reboot: “Pure Class”
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2025· 2 entries
AOL: James Garner punishes old club as Everton pile misery on former boss Sean Dyche
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Yahoo: James Garner's 2 Children: All About the Golden Age Star's Daughters Gina and Kimberly
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash: Live!”.
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2014· 5 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Actor James Garner detected the presence of an enemy patrol during the Korean War through the smell of garlic.” Mostly True.
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Police and rescue personnel were summoned to Garner's Brentwood, Los Angeles home, where they found the actor dead at the age of 86
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Died 2014-07-19.
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Was less than a month before their 58th anniversary
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TCM host Robert Osborne said that Fonda's gentle, sincere persona rubbed off on Garner
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2011· 1 entry
Simon & Schuster published Garner's autobiography The Garner Files: A Memoir, co-written with Jon Winokur
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded TCA Career Achievement Award (2010).
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The Television Critics Association gave Garner its annual Career Achievement Award
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2008· 1 entry
Following a stroke he had suffered two days earlier
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2006· 1 entry
Garner made his last appearance in The Ultimate Gift, although he voiced Shazam in Superman/Shazam
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Garner starred as the older version of Ryan Gosling's character in the film version of The Notebook, for which the Screen Actors Guild nominated Garner as best male actor
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2003· 1 entry
To endow the James Garner Chair in the School of Drama, he donated $500,000 towards a total $1 million endowment for the first endowed position at the drama school
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2002· 2 entries
Was Sandra Bullock's father in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and after the death of John Ritter, Garner joined the cast of 8 Simple Rules in 2003, remaining with the series until it ended in 2005
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Following the death of James Coburn, Garner took over the TV commercial voiceovers for Chevrolet's "Like a Rock" advertising campaign, on which Garner continued through the end of the campaign
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2000· 2 entries
After having both knees replaced, Garner appeared with Clint Eastwood as astronauts in Space Cowboys
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Underwent knee replacement surgery for both knees
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1994· 1 entry
Garner co-starred as Marshal Zane Cooper in the movie version of Maverick, with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster in the leading roles
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1993· 1 entry
Garner starred in a well-regarded HBO movie, Barbarians at the Gate, then reprised his role as Jim Rockford in eight Rockford Files TV movies for CBS beginning the following year
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1991· 1 entry
Garner starred in Man of the People, an NBC series about a con man filling an empty seat on a city council which was cancelled after only ten of its episodes were aired
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1990· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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1988· 1 entry
Garner had quintuple bypass heart surgery
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1987· 1 entry
Garner announced plans to partner with Larry Cahill to form a racing team to compete in the 1988 Indycar season
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1985· 1 entry
For his role in the 1985 CBS miniseries Space, the character's party affiliation was changed from Republican to Democrat, as in the book, to reflect Garner's personal views.
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1984· 1 entry
Led Joseph Wambaugh's The Glitter Dome for HBO Pictures, directed by Stuart Margolin
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1982· 1 entry
Garner gave at least $29,000 to Federal campaigns, of which over $24,000 was to Democratic Party candidates, including Dennis Kucinich (for Congress in 2002), Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, and various Democra
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1981· 1 entry
And remained together until his death in 2014
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame (1978).
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Was one of the inaugural inductees in the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame
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1977· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for The Rockford Files (1977).
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And settled in Pasadena, until Barthé's death in 1989
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As Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (The Rockford Files), and in 1987 as executive producer of Promise
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1975· 1 entry
1977, and 1985 (see: list of Indianapolis 500 pace cars)
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1974· 1 entry
Cherokee produced six seasons of The Rockford Files, starring Garner as Jim Rockford
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1970· 1 entry
“Marriage is like the Army; everyone complains, but you”
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1967· 1 entry
And then in Blake Edwards' Sunset in 1988
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1964· 1 entry
Garner formed his own company, Cherokee Productions
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1963· 2 entries
Garner was one of several celebrities to join Martin Luther King Jr
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Exhibitors voted him the 16th most popular star in the US and it was thought he might be a successor to Clark Gable
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1959· 1 entry
Was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance
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1957· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor for Sayonara (1957).
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Had a supporting role in the TV anthology series episode on Conflict entitled "Man from 1997
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1955· 1 entry
Garner was considered for the lead role in Cheyenne, which went to Clint Walker; Garner wound up playing an Army officer in the series pilot titled "Mountain Fortress"
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1954· 1 entry
Paul Gregory, a theatre and future film producer whom Garner met while attending Hollywood High School, persuaded Garner to take a nonspeaking role in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, where he w
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1945· 1 entry
Attending Hollywood High while helping his dad lay carpet
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1934· 1 entry
When his father remarried, the first of several times
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1928· 2 entries
In Norman, Oklahoma, the youngest child of Weldon Warren Bumgarner (1901–1986) and Mildred Scott (née Meek; 1907–1933)
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Born 1928-04-07.
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