Very sad to hear the news that James Garner has passed away aged 86, after suffering a stroke..

Very much enjoyed the roles he played while off screen, he seemed to avoid the need to be constantly in the media spot light..

RIP Mr Garner

R.I.P

Amen.

Loved the Rockford Files when I was a kid growing up; loved the gold Firebird too.

Sad to hear. He shipped with the Merchant Marine during WWII, twice wounded in Korea.

RIP. This is strange, because just yesterday I was watching a commercial for The Rockford Files, and thinking about what a good actor he's always been, and played some great characters over the years, and that I had enjoyed watching the Rockford Files years ago. I also had assumed that he'd been gone for a while already, i.e., I wasn't aware he was still alive, as I hadn't seen or heard reference to him in many years. I also thought I remember hearing that he had died many years ago, but it appears that was incorrect.

Maverick... RIP.

One of the good ones... RIP

James Garner was an talented actor, with an amazing presence, and handsome as hell. I loved him in The Rockford Files, Maverick, and many of his movies. But most especially the movie "The Americanization of Emily", which is pretty good when you consider that I truly hate musicals. I think I might not mind them so much if there was not so much singing and dancing in them.

The best of the best are slowly dwindling down to nothing, sad for the world of entertainment, and sadder for us who have had the privilege of watching them and experiencing their ability to bring their characters to life for us, even long after we have left the movie houses, the drive-ins, and switched off our television sets

May You Rest In Peace Mr. Garner.

He was always my favorite of the four. Seemed like a good guy.

Damn. He was hard not to like�.

Thank you Mister Garner for all the good times.

I'm watching the F1 race and they just mentioned it on the broadcast. I enjoyed his work also, seemed like a pretty cool guy.

RIP JG

RIP Bret

Yep, a great man. RIP.



maddog

James was one of the good ones, RIP Jimmy.

RIP Jimmy Rockford

I watch "Support your local sheriff" and "Support your local gunfighter" every time they come on tv and laugh like I've never seen it before. Garner was a great actor.

Hate to hear that he is gone, but what a great run.

The Great Escape

I enjoyed his work in Maverick, Rockford Files, and other movies and TV shows. He also made a movie about F1 racing called Grand Prix which was great. Rest in peace, Mr. Garner.

As a kid I remember coming home from school and watching reruns of Maverick. James Garner was a good actor over the years.

My sentiments, as well.

donsm70

+1. As a kid I loved the show and I really wanted to drive the gold Firebird. They don't make his kind anymore.

R.I.P.

RIP-Jim. My favorite was Maverick.

I would agree with you. With most men I always say what do women see in us men but with Jim I could understand what women would see in him.

Gee's the week just started and its off to a bad week, RIP James!

Funny,,, I was watching "Sledge" for the umpteenth time on the western channel the other night and got to thinking about what a great actor he is (was). Right up there with the best of them in my book.

RIP

Brings to mind what my cousin said about the beach. He said the beach would be OK if it wasn't for all that damn sand.
James was my favorite Maverick when I was young. RIP. miles

one of the few that I'd consider was really good at his craft.

RIP Jim

Always liked his role in The Great Escape...

He was definitely a good one...

I am with your cousin on that one

He was one of those who never let fame go to his head. A lot of the older great actors were like that; him, Chuck Norris, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart, just to name a few. Most of the current ones disgust me with their "I'm somebody special" mentality.

Grand Prix...Hour of the Gun...and with friends like �Angel� Rockford didn't need too many enemies.

Garner always impressed me as an admirable man. He certainly had good taste in toys and knew how to have fun.

James Garner's four place Indy car, so he could share his passion for racing.



And here is his 1970 Olds 442 restored to racing form and recently offered for sale.

Garner's character was one of the few who made it out, as I recall. I think he rowed to Switzerland with the blind character.

via con Dios Jim my friend. you will always live in my heart.

Whenever me or one of my buddies did the quick reverse turn around like he did in the firebird, we called it "pullin' a Rockford"

the red line in "support your local sheriff"...lol

When receiving the 2005 Screen Actors Guild's lifetime achievement award: "I'm not at all sure how I got here."

Jim Garner was the best person to ever come out of Oklahoma. Well, there was this one girl....

I saw that in the theater with a friend of mine when I was a kid. That one and Support Your Local Gunfighter. Chuck Connors played the heavy in the latter.

I thought the blind guy, Donald Pleasence, got shot walking towards some German soldiers after Garner crashed the plane. I don't remember what happened to Garner, but I don't think it involved a boat. It has been too long since I've watched that movie. I might have to correct that oversight tonight.

Is it on tonight?

Read this earlier this morning. Too bad, he was certainly one hell of a great actor, and never saw an interview that he was anything but gracious and humble.


RIP Jim.

RIP Mr. James Garner. You'll be missed.

Sad. I really enjoyed watching him. RIP James Garner.

While away from the family for a few months, I've been watching The Rockford Files on Netflix. The entire show holds up very well and Garner is a superb actor. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

Charles Bronson as Danny the "Tunnel King" made it out in the rowboat.

James Garner as the "Scrounger" was captured as he stays with Donald Pleasence the "Forger" who is killed.

Many of the actors were veterans of WWII or Korean.

Pleasence actually was shot down and spent a year in a very real German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I.

It will be at my house. I think I have the video and if I don't, I'll probably down load it.

Every time one of the old actors or actresses passes I feel like a little bit of my life is passing away as well. Change . . . Time . . . Eternity are things that come to mind.

I agree. What I'm thinking about right now is who of the good ones is left? I'm afraid with the passing of James Garner that was about the last one on my list of favorites. To me, the new generation of actors just don't seem to generate the presence in a movie that the old guys did..Tom Selleck is about the only exception I can think of right off hand.

R.I.P. James Garner.

I feel the same way.

I also watched Rockford Files some but liked the guy better in movies.

IMO 2 of his best were

Decoration Day
Space Cowboys

Tom Selleck had a semi-regular acting role for a while on the Rockford Files series.

RIP Mr. Garner.

Damn. He was one of those guys I just took for granted because he just 'always was'. Guys my age grew up watching him in various roles throughout our lives. He will be missed. The Notebook was excellent, IMO.

Yep, good guy for sure.

He had that casual, anti-hero, every man appeal.

Can't believe he was 86.

RIP.

Perfect description.

Yep, as opposed to the plethora of super Heros who survive multiple improbable events only by luck in each third rate thriller they star in.

One of my favorites, thought he seemed like a good man...for an ultra liberal anyway.

Same here and especially with the passing of James Garner.

Like a lot of guys here, I grew up watching and enjoying The Rockford Files and I've been waiting with a bit of dread for a number of years for this news. He was one of my favorites from my childhood era and it seems the last of the great actors from my youth to go.

RIP, Mr. Garner and thanks for the great work you left behind.

Lance White. Those two episodes were funny as hell.

You should make a picture of Jim Rockford your avatar, Barkoff.

I have had that same avatar since I joined up, must be some sort of 24hr record for the longest running avatar.

RIP Mr Garner. One of the good guys.

Eastwood & Hackman are about the only great Actors left from that generation.

Loved Rockford Files when I was a kid! Space Cowboys and and the last Maverick movie he made are two of my most favorite James Garner movies.

Most likely.

Thinking I have that beat.

One of my favorites. From Norman, Oklahoma. Wounded in action in Korea. OU fan. Great actor.

Expat

HEY!!

Watch yo mouf! Me and Will Rogers are BOTH from the Oklahoma, the "home of the red man."

Give us some credit too!

I couldn't wait to get home from school in the early 70's to watch reruns of Maverick every afternoon. I also enjoyed many of his other movies and Rockford Files. R.I.P.

I caught 'gunfighter' the other day, even my wife watched and enjoyed it.

RIP sir,

Dale

They were great together. Everything came so easy for Selleck and so hard for Garner. Including getting the pistol out of the glove box in Selleck's fancy car.

In the late 1990s, James and Lois Garner built a 12,000-square-foot house on a 400-acre ranch north of Santa Barbara.

"My wife and I felt ... we'd just watch the sunset from the front porch," Garner said in 2000.
"But then the phone started ringing with all these wonderful offers, and we decided, 'Heck, let's stay in the business for a while.'"

Always liked the characters he played. Sorry to see him go. I'll have to watch The Great Escape this week in his honour.

Always one of myfavorite actors, and a personally likable guy.

How many of y'all remember Nichols ?

What a loss with the passing of Maverick.

He ranks right up there with another Oklahoman if memory serves me right who was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska, Will Rogers.

Sorry about that Big Buck I posted this before I got down to your Post.

I could count on one hand the number of celebrities that I could give a damn about. He was certainly one of them.
RIP.

I'm kind of suprised by all the adulation here on the site, I think this is one of the first times I have seen the members of the 24CA ignore the liberal politics of an ultra liberal .
I did the same. I bought his autobiography , but the wife happened to read it first and relayed some of his political views, after that I decided to skip the read, I didn't want to hear liberal preachings from somebody I had always admired. I was pretty surprised to learn he was as left as he was.

I remember the opening scene, one of the best ever and very much in character for the type of roles he often played

Tracks, I got you beat by half a year...

I joined June 2001 and I've had the same avatar all the time.

Others predate me I know, I wonder how many have never changed avatars though.

One of the old guard will soon be along to top me...

Just to keep it on topic, I enjoyed watching Garner in Rockford files when I was in high school.

John

I like Chuck but..........great actors list?

RIP Jimmy!

I just appreciate excellence. If you are good at your craft, congenial to others, and keep your leftist politics mostly to yourself......I can still like you.

Wasn't aware he was an ultra liberal.
Evidently he wasn't an obnoxious, in your face, bigmouth intolerant liberal.
I can stand a quiet respectful liberal more than an obnoxious bigmouth know it all conservative.
(And I don't like liberals!)

Ditto...

My adulation is different, I am Canadian, in truth our politics are all screwed up so I don't pay to much damn attention to the political leanings of anyone else. In the end we are all screwed equally.

If only....

By 1960 I had pretty well figured out that watching good movies and listening to good music was going to require ignoring the politics of the performers.