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13 unusual facts about James Garner


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1966 Belgian Grand Prix

James Garner's white Yamura (Honda) number 24 did not appear in the actual race and scenes showing it are part of the staged race filming.

1966 United States Grand Prix

Sunday was cool, but dry, and a crowd of 75,000 included actors James Garner (Pete Aron), Toshirō Mifune (Mr. Yomura) and Jessica Walter (Pat Stoddard), as well as director John Frankenheimer, who were in the final stages of creating the movie Grand Prix.

Brian Bedford

Bedford appeared with James Garner in the 1966 film Grand Prix, and in 1967 he was a regular on the short-lived CBS television series Coronet Blue.

Claus Biederstaedt

Among the actors for whom he has dubbed have been Yves Montand, Peter Falk, Marlon Brando, Vittorio Gassman, and James Garner.

Henry Daniell

In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year.

Jackson County, North Carolina

Several movies have been filmed in the county including the 1993 blockbuster action-adventure The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, the 1972 drama Deliverance, and the 1996 comedy My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner.

Kathleen Crowley

Most well known for playing a variety of sirens on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Maverick (1957) opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, she appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies:

Mazda RX-7

Mazda introduced a convertible version of the RX-7 in 1988 with a Naturally aspirated engine — introduced to the US market with ads featuring Hollywood actor James Garner, at the time featured in many of Mazda's television advertisements.

Richard Friedenberg

He wrote the screenplay for A River Runs Through It (1992), starring Brad Pitt, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and the screenplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television film Promise (1986), starring James Garner and James Woods, for which he won an Emmy Award.

Richmond Barthé

In that apartment, Barthe worked on his memoirs and most importantly, editioned many of his works with the financial assistance of the actor James Garner until his death in 1989.

Todd Susman

For this role, Susman mentioned he admired James Garner's portrayal in The Rockford Files for getting "into quasi-hero situations but isn't a hero".

Waylon and Company

Waylon and Company is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Records in 1983 and featuring duets with a large number of influential artists, including Hank Williams, Jr., Jessi Colter, Willie Nelson, Ernest Tubb, Mel Tillis, Jerry Reed, Emmylou Harris, Tony Joe White and actor James Garner.


Andra Martin

She also played Wahleeah, a captive Native American maiden who became the love interest of Clint Walker in Yellowstone Kelly (1959) and appeared in various television series, including Maverick in the episodes "Gun-Shy" with James Garner, "Hadley's Hunters" with Jack Kelly, and "Thunder from the North" with Roger Moore.

She was James Garner's leading lady in the 1959 movie Up Periscope, and the daughter/secretary on the Perry Mason TV-series episode "The Case of the Prodigal Parent".

Arlene Howell

Howell appeared as Cindy Lou Brown in the ABC/WB western series, Maverick: in a cameo appearance in the oft-discussed episode "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" and in the installments "Island in the Swamp" with James Garner and Edgar Buchanan, "Alias Bart Maverick", and "Passage to Fort Doom" opposite Jack Kelly.

Arvo Ojala

Among the TV and film stars that Ojala taught to shoot included James Arness, Robert Culp, James Garner, Kevin Kline, Paul Newman, Hugh O'Brian, Clint Walker, and Thomas F. Wilson.

Broadmoor Golf Club, Seattle

With the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, the Seattle Open attracted Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Tony Lema, Ken Venturi, Dave Hill, Julius Boros, Doug Sanders, Hollywood stars Bob Hope, James Garner, Don Cherry, Dennis Morgan and Phil Crosby, and a crowd of 6,000 for the Pro Am.

Catherine McLeod

She memorably portrayed the one woman whom James Garner's character Bret Maverick wanted to marry on the 1957 ABC/Warner Brothers television series Maverick, in the episode "Rage for Vengeance."

Diane Brewster

Brewster first played the character in a 1956 episode of Cheyenne entitled "Dark Rider" before appearing opposite James Garner in the third episode of Maverick, "According to Hoyle." Brewster's other Maverick appearances include "The Savage Hills" with Jack Kelly, "The Seventh Hand" with Garner, and the famous "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" with both Kelly and Garner.

Emile Meyer

He also appeared on television, including a guest spot on John Payne's The Restless Gun and as a truculently stubborn juror opposite James Garner in the 1957 Maverick episode "Rope of Cards."

Esther Dale

In the 1958-1959 season of The Donna Reed Show, Dale played a job-seeking housekeeper who is frightened from the Stone home by Jeff Stone's pet mouse, and appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode "According to Hoyle" opposite James Garner.

Fire in the Sky

Making their way back to town to report the incident, the loggers are met with skepticism, as they relate what sounds like a tall tale to Sheriff Blake Davis (Noble Willingham) and Lieutenant Frank Watters (James Garner).

Gage Clarke

Clarke, a slightly overweight actor with a double chin, specialized in playing avuncular, rather timid characters, with one of his largest parts being frightened gambler "Foursquare Farley" in the Maverick episode "Greenbacks, Unlimited" opposite James Garner and John Dehner.

Joanna Cassidy

She also appeared opposite James Garner, playing his ex-wife, in the 1994 television movie The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. Her other screen credits from this era include Barbarians at the Gate (1993), the 1993 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995).

Juanita Bartlett

Juanita Bartlett is a television writer best known for The Rockford Files and The New Maverick, both starring James Garner.

Kaye Elhardt

Best known for her comedic role as "Josephine St. Cloud" (pronounced "San Cloo") opposite James Garner and Jack Kelly in the 1959 "Pappy" episode of Maverick, Elhardt made more than forty appearances on television series.

Lonesome Dove

Four other actors (Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, James Garner, and Jon Voight) were offered the role of Woodrow Call but declined for various reasons before the role fell to Tommy Lee Jones.

Marabel Morgan

In a 1977 episode ("Trouble in Chapter 17") of James Garner's NBC-TV series The Rockford Files, the character of Anne Louise Clement (Claudette Nevins), who believes her book on how to be the perfect wife is the cause of the death threats against her and for whom Jim must act as bodyguard, is closely based on Marabel Morgan.

Poker Alice

Ivers has been fictionalized in several films and numerous television series, including the 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick with James Garner as Bret Maverick and Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice Ivers.

The Castaway Cowboy

Texas cowboy, Lincoln Costain (James Garner), gets "shanghaied" in San Francisco, then jumps ship and washes ashore on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, right into the arms of widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and her son (Eric Shea) who are struggling to make a living as farmers.

The Castaway Cowboy is a 1974 adventure film released by Walt Disney Productions starring James Garner, Vera Miles, Eric Shea, and Robert Culp about a Texas rancher who gets shanghaied, then jumps ship and finds himself washed ashore in Hawaii.

Val Bisoglio

Bisoglio performed in numerous TV series in the 1970s including M*A*S*H,, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Roll Out, Kojak starring Telly Savalas (beginning with the TV-movie pilot The Marcus-Nelson Murders), Baretta starring Robert Blake, and The Rockford Files starring James Garner.

Vince Gironda

A short list of stars who trained at Vince's Gym includes Robert Blake, Cher, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, James Garner, Brian Keith, Tommy Chong (of Cheech & Chong) and Erik Estrada.