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04-07-2017, 07:22 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/04/07/april-7-happy-birthday-francis-ford-coppola-and-jackie-chan/
James Garner (https://lebeauleblog.com/2018/04/07/april-6-7-happy-birthday-russell-crowe-and-james-garner/) (1928-2014) worked in film and television for nearly 60 years. He first made a name as Bret Maverick on ABC’s Maverick in the late fifties, and had another big TV role as Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files in the seventies. He emerged as a film star playing Lt. Bob “the Scrounger” Hendley in The Great Escape in 1963. He went on to star in a diverse range of films. He played Wyatt Earp in Hour of the Gun, and then did a comic take on the “town taming” Western lawman in Support Your Local Sheriff. In the eighties he starred opposite Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria and Sally Field in Murphy’s Romance, receiving an Oscar nomination for the latter. In 2000 he joined fellow veteran actors like Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland in Space Cowboys.
James Garner (https://lebeauleblog.com/2018/04/07/april-6-7-happy-birthday-russell-crowe-and-james-garner/) (1928-2014) worked in film and television for nearly 60 years. He first made a name as Bret Maverick on ABC’s Maverick in the late fifties, and had another big TV role as Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files in the seventies. He emerged as a film star playing Lt. Bob “the Scrounger” Hendley in The Great Escape in 1963. He went on to star in a diverse range of films. He played Wyatt Earp in Hour of the Gun, and then did a comic take on the “town taming” Western lawman in Support Your Local Sheriff. In the eighties he starred opposite Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria and Sally Field in Murphy’s Romance, receiving an Oscar nomination for the latter. In 2000 he joined fellow veteran actors like Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland in Space Cowboys.