Actor James Garner has died at the age of 86, reportedly of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
Garner was probably best known for his television shows “Maverick” and “The Rockford Files”, though his presence on film won’t go overlooked especially in such films as The Great Escape, Grand Prix, Sayonara, The Americanization of Emily, Victor/Victoria, The Notebook and Space Cowboys.
My personal experience with Garner’s work is limited to only a couple of the films mentioned above, but perhaps mostly when he appeared as the father to Mel Gibson in the feature film version of Maverick, co-starring Jodie Foster.
Garner was something of an everyman performer, nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in 1986 for Murphy’s Romance, three-time Golden Globe winner, though never for his most popular roles, two-time Emmy winner and most recently, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2005. [CNN]
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