RIP, James Garner

Isn't the Dallas franchise in the NBA so named because he was in the original partnership that owned the expansion team?

 

RIP to one of the great actors of our time. Probably a bit
under-appreciated. Besides the movies already mentioned,
two of my favorites were Grand Prix and Barbarians At
The Gate.

 

RIP to one of my favorite actors and apparently a pretty good man.

Thanks for all of the memories. It is time to find the Rockford Files somewhere and watch a bunch of episodes.

 

Ya gotta help me, Jimmy!

 

I'd nearly forgotten about these ads:



One of his most memorable roles was as a perpetually flummoxed pitchman for Polaroid cameras in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in droll commercials in which he played a vexed husband and Mariette Hartley played his needling wife. They were so persuasive that Ms. Hartley had a shirt printed with the declaration “I am NOT Mrs. James Garner.”

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Yes, I remember those well because I was one of those who thought they really were married.

 

. . . and one of the biggest Raider fans on Planet Earth.

 

Great voice, he always worked from the lower shelf.

 

I can totally see him getting dressed up as "Maverick Raider," complete with silver and black cowboy hat and face paint, and kicking around with the neanderthals in the Black Hole for a Week 13 game against the Jaguars.

 

I remember once when I was a kid one of the tabloids had a bogus cover story about Garner getting ready to divorce his wife, with a picture of the two, and when my dad saw it, he was totally shocked it wasn't Hartley with him.

 

I agree. It didn't get a lot of love from the critics or do big box office, but it was entertaining. Seeing Garner and Lemmon playing off each other is worth the viewing time by itself.