April 7: Happy Birthday James Garner

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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.