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Post by teleadm on Apr 7, 2018 8:03:55 GMT
James Garner would have been 90 today... (April 7) I always loved his relaxed movie and television persona, though he played a few mean guys too. I remember after watching The Notebook 2004 on TV and a young girl said she had never heard of James Garner, and I went on-line showed her a few pic, and she said "WOW he was a hunk!!". Back when stars were stars     Darby's Rangers 1958  1957 - 1962  The Great Escape 1963  Move Over Darling 1963  The Americanization of Emily 1964  1966  Support Your Local Sheriff! 1969  Skin Game 1971  The Rockford Files 1974 - 1980  Victor/Victoria 1982  Murphy's Romance 1985, his only Oscar nomination.  My Fellow Americans 1996  Space Cowboys 2000  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2002  The Notebook 2004 Thanks for watching! |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 7, 2018 8:41:32 GMT
I'm a huge Garner fan.
I don't think any film role ever captured the Garner quality as well as The Rockford Files. That's just one of those rare examples of perfect casting, along w/David Janssen as The Fugitive.
I've seen a few episodes of Nichols (1971), which FWIW was Garner's own favorite series. It's well produced and entertaining, and has a shockingly good performance from John Beck (so dull otherwise) as the town's spoiled rich boy. But it's vaguely disappointing -- its like the makers assumed just being quirky was enough.
I wish Skin Game had been better directed -- Garner is very comfortable in his Maverickesque role, while he and Lou Gossett work well together (they would later team for a couple of great Rockford episodes). Peter Stone's script is very good.
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 7, 2018 9:00:33 GMT
one of my favourite actors. Just a few good ones - Once upon a time corporate raiders were the good guys -  These 2 were the heart and soul of this one -    An unlikely duo -  A villain!  |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 7, 2018 9:37:28 GMT
An unlikely duo - Not really all that unlikely. Lee got the role in the first place because he had become the martial arts trainer to the stars. James Coburn (an old friend of Garner's) trained extensively with Lee and was a pallbearer at Lee's funeral, along with Steve McQueen. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 7, 2018 12:19:00 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 7, 2018 12:27:37 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 7, 2018 12:36:13 GMT
IMHO, MURPHY'S ROMANCE remains his best performance and his only Oscar nomination.
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 7, 2018 12:38:55 GMT
I've liked him ever since seeing him as Maverick back in the late 50s.
I especially like his upbraiding of Europe in The Americanization of Emily.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 7, 2018 16:52:19 GMT
I grew up with "Maverick" and the 3 brothers, Brett, Bart and Beau...loved their many references to "my pappy used to say" in so many episodes...
My Uncle Chester was the spitting image of James Garner...
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Post by politicidal on Apr 7, 2018 17:21:06 GMT
Another film of his that's almost forgotten now. But it was a mystery movie with Bruce Willis called Sunset (1988).  He plays an older Wyatt Earp and is singlehandedly the best thing about it. |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 7, 2018 18:05:48 GMT
He was a class act all the way. I've always enjoyed The Rockford Files and he was great in such movies as Murphy's Romance and Victor/Victoria. He even gave mediocre, by-the-numbers material such as Tank a big boost because of his screen presence. He will be sorely missed.
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 7, 2018 18:18:06 GMT
Another film of his that's almost forgotten now. But it was a mystery movie with Bruce Willis called Sunset (1988). He plays an older Wyatt Earp and is singlehandedly the best thing about it. And that was the second time he portrayed Wyatt Earp -- the first time around in HOUR OF THE GUN in 1966. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 7, 2018 21:13:27 GMT
Another film of his that's almost forgotten now. But it was a mystery movie with Bruce Willis called Sunset (1988). He plays an older Wyatt Earp and is singlehandedly the best thing about it. And that was the second time he portrayed Wyatt Earp -- the first time around in HOUR OF THE GUN in 1966. And there's a Rockford episode where an evil psychiatrist imprisons Jim in an insane asylum, and one of the patients thinks Jim is Wyatt Earp. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 7, 2018 21:21:16 GMT
I grew up with "Maverick" and the 3 brothers, Brett, Bart and Beau That's four brothers. Robert Colbert as Brent Maverick:   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 7, 2018 21:28:20 GMT
 Garner as Marshall Zane Cooper SPOILER: FORESHADOWING: Throughout the movie, when Mel Gibson's character says "my pappy always used to say", the camera cuts to James Garner rolling his eyes. At the end of the film, Garner is revealed to actually be Gibson's father. |
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Post by kijii on Apr 7, 2018 21:52:10 GMT
He also took on some supporting roles: In The Children's Hour (1961) as Audrey Hepburn's boyfriend. That would be similar to Joel McCrea's role in These Three (1936). Then, he had a role in Sayonara (1957) as Brando's buddy  Another good TV movie was Promise (1986) in which he has inherited the responsibility for his brother, James Woods with who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 7, 2018 21:59:08 GMT
I grew up with "Maverick" and the 3 brothers, Brett, Bart and Beau That's four brothers. Robert Colbert as Brent Maverick: LOL that was a young Roger Moore!! |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 7, 2018 22:06:39 GMT
With Clint Walker and Randolph Scott  |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 7, 2018 22:17:03 GMT
OK, that was not a good version!
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Post by petrolino on Apr 7, 2018 22:28:34 GMT
Garner as Marshall Zane Cooper SPOILER: FORESHADOWING: Throughout the movie, when Mel Gibson's character says "my pappy always used to say", the camera cuts to James Garner rolling his eyes. At the end of the film, Garner is revealed to actually be Gibson's father. Though I may have seen the odd episode as a kid, I never watched the tv series 'Maverick'. I like Richard Donner's film though and have it on dvd. James Garner and Jodie Foster did loads of press kits together and got along like a house on fire. She recalled it as her favourite experience ever making a movie ... "In all, it was the best experience I've ever had making a movie, the happiest I've ever been on a project, including any of my own. And I'd never been to any of these locations, like the Sierras and the Columbia River and areas around the Grand Canyon. I've traveled all over the world, but I've never been to these American locations. I just went completely crazy, hiking every weekend, camping, and sailing.''
- Jodie Foster, The Christian Science Monitor
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