Loved the Rockford/Angel dynamic. Great show, will have to revisit. Exuded everyman cool.
R.I.P. James Garner
- Thread starter Gil T.Azell
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His stint on Nichols (1971-72) has apparently been largely forgotten. 
His stint on Nichols (1971-72) has apparently been largely forgotten.
Apparently Nichols was his favorite show that he ever did. I'd never heard about it until the autobiography and subsequently others mentioning it, but if I can track it down, I'm definitely going to watch it.
His stint on Nichols (1971-72) has apparently been largely forgotten.
Apparently Nichols was his favorite show that he ever did. I'd never heard about it until the autobiography and subsequently others mentioning it, but if I can track it down, I'm definitely going to watch it.
Its been available on dvd since last year. Its apparently copied on dvd-r when you purchase it (something I've never heard of before). There's a few short clips on youtube, but little else there.
His stint on Nichols (1971-72) has apparently been largely forgotten.
I had often heard of it but never seen it till this past year when I got the DVDs upon the recommendation of member Forbin. A very enjoyable series, and interesting as a sort of proto-Rockford Files, with a town full of good supporting players of various levels of eccentricity. Besides the great Stuart Margolin, minor "Rockford" regulars Jack Garner and Luis Delgado show up. Not every episode is great but some are outstanding and range from outright comedy to pointed Vietnam-era satire to fairly contemplative. A spoof of The Professionals and an episode where two over-the-hill gunfighters won't back down from their old rivalry were standouts for me. Plus it's great if you like good character actors: Strother Martin, Ricardo Montalban, Jack Elam, M. Emmett Walsh, Ray Danton, Bo Hopkins, Paul Winfield, Joyce Van Patten, Alice Ghostley... others I can't think of now. It's also got that Old-West-bordering-on-the-automobile-age feel like The Wild Bunch, The Professionals, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, and Big Jake, which is kind of fun.
It's pretty obvious that the show had a lot of heart and it was probably a bitter disappointment that they had to shut it down after one season.
Always got a kick out of these
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I always like garner,he did a great job in grand prix.
A movie with James Garner and Toshiro Mifune, how can it go wrong? Making that movie helped give Garner the driving bug. He ended up doing a lot of the stunt driving on "Rockford" because he could get things just the way he wanted.
TCM has released the schedule for the Garner tribute on Monday July 28. Eastern times:
6:00 AM Toward the Unknown
8:00 AM Shoot-out at Medicine Bend
9:30 AM Grand Prix
12:30 PM Cash McCall
2:15 PM The Wheeler Dealers
4:00 PM Darby's Rangers
6:15 PM Mister Buddwing
8:00 PM The Thrill of it All
10:00 PM The Americanization of Emily
12:00 AM The Children's Hour
2:00 AM Victor/Victoria
4:30 AM Marlowe
Garner was hilarious in Maverick (the movie). Then again, everyone else in that film was, as well.
Was Zane Cooper actually Bret Maverick Sr. and a continuation of the TV show or not? James Garner said yes. Someone else (Richard Donner?) said no.
I never saw the TV series, so I didn't even think of this possibility. What about the time frame? IIRC, the year given in the movie was 1883. Is this compatible with the show?
I loved him in the RF's... but what really caught my attention growing up were his commercials with Mariette Hartley for Poloroid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDAsd0VuMtQ
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And here's an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKoiLlVffcg
"Good bye"
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My older brother met him once when he came to his grade school to entertain the kids.
What a sweet man.
Rest, dear soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDAsd0VuMtQ
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And here's an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKoiLlVffcg
"Good bye"
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKoiLlVffcg[/yt]
My older brother met him once when he came to his grade school to entertain the kids.
What a sweet man.
Rest, dear soul.
Another one that, while not meriting real superlatives, I found kind of diverting on numerous occasions was They Only Kill Their Masters with Katharine Ross.
For some reason, I have long thought a true iconic image of him was in his role as a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Oakland Raiders, on the sideline. This isn't the one I'm thinking of but I guess it will do in a pinch, for illustrative purposes.
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For some reason, I have long thought a true iconic image of him was in his role as a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Oakland Raiders, on the sideline. This isn't the one I'm thinking of but I guess it will do in a pinch, for illustrative purposes.
ronriesterer.photoshelter.com/image/I0000YYAJXbHIfSM
