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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | This one particularly sad for me as I was a huge fan of this handsome, personable and talented actor. Everybody loved Maverick back in the day but my all time favorite movie of Jim's "Support Your Local Sheriff." He had many fun movies. |
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  Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | As a little girl he was my favorite actor, well throughout my life he was my favorite too. I was crazy about him. So many movies that I loved. Wonderful man. There won't be another one like him. |
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 Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | Murphys Romance.. with sally field..
what a true gentleman.. he will be missed |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 865
| What a guy. Loved him! RIP Mr. Garner |
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 I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | I loved this guy. RIP... |
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I'm a Cry Baby
Posts: 3781
Location: n.c. | He was great. Will miss him so much.
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | We have been watching Maverick on the Western Channel the last couple of months. I had forgotten how good they were. James Garner was always a favorite of mine. I don't think he ever got the recognition he deserved. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | He was one of the Greats |
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 Living on the edge of common sense
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Location: Carpenter, WY | He was always one of my favorites. Seemed to have a wonderful sense of humor and was always a gentlemen
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10D Crack Champion
| The Rockford Files! James Garner is like John Wayne, Sam Elliott, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Duvall.......in a class all their own. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | sodapop - 2014-07-20 11:31 AM The Rockford Files! James Garner is like John Wayne, Sam Elliott, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Duvall.......in a class all their own.
.....and remember his dad on Rockford Files played by Noah Beery Jr. Another memorable face from the good ole days.
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Location: I can see the end of the world from here! | This surprised me (along with his love of cannibus! Lol):
November 1, 2011 | 02:03PM PTJames Garner's memoir "The Garner Files" was published today, and far from being a glossed over look at his career, it's very much matter of fact.
Although he defends actors who express their political views, he is critical of those who run for office.
"Too many actors have run for office," he writes. "There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country."
Garner writes that he was asked to run for Congress in 1962 as a Republican, and "it didn't stop them when I told them I was a Democrat. …They just thought I could win." In 1990, Democratic leaders approached him about running for governor of California, but the discussion got to the issue of abortion and Garner says he answered, "I don't have an opinion, because that's up to the woman. It has nothing to do with me." The conversation pretty much stopped there.
Garner is what he calls a "bleeding-heart liberal," having participated in the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and later advocating for a number of progressive causes. He voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, he writes, but never cast a ballot for a Republican again. He voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, and calls him "the most intelligent presidential candidate we've ever had. I think Obama runs a close second."
He's also critical about Charlton Heston — either as an actor or defender of civil rights. As Garner describes it, Heston appointed himself leader of the Hollywood group that went to the March on Washington, and even tamped down a suggestion by Marlon Brando that the performers chain themselves to the Lincoln Memorial. But the next year, Heston switched parties and backed Barry Goldwater.
http://variety.com/2011/biz/opinion/in-new-memoir-james-garner-slams-reagan-other-actors-who-run-for-office-37170/ |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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Location: Oklahoma | Bibliafarm - 2014-07-20 8:22 AM Murphys Romance.. with sally field..
what a true gentleman.. he will be missed
This was my favorite of his as well. I loved that movie. When I think of him- I think of that movie. I loved watching him growing up. |
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Location: Colorado plains standing on a goat head! | He also recieved two purple heart medals in Korea. |
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