James Garner

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James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner, April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media.

He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades. These included his roles as Bret Maverick, in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, Maverick; Jim Rockford, in the popular 1970s detective drama, The Rockford Files; and the father of Katey Sagal's character on 8 Simple Rules following the death of John Ritter. He has starred in dozens of movies, including The Great Escape, Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964), Blake Edwards, Victor Victoria (1982) and Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

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Movie		Character	Year
	Shoot Out At Medicine Bend	John Maitland	1957
	The Wheeler Dealers	Henry Tyroon	1963
	The Great Escape	Flight Lt. Hendley	1963
	The Thrill of It All	Dr. Gerald Boyer	1963
	Duel at Diablo	Jess Remsberg	1966
	Support Your Local Sheriff!	Jason McCullough	1969
	Marlowe	Philip Marlowe	1969
	A Man Called Sledge	Luther Sledge	1970
	Skin Game	Quincy Drew / Capt. Nathaniel Mountjoy	1971
	Sunset	Wyatt Earp	1988
	Decoration Day	Albert Sidney Finch	1990
	Barbarians at the Gate	F. Ross Johnson	1993
	Breathing Lessons	Ira Moran	1994
	Maverick	Marshal Zane Cooper	1994
	Twilight	Raymond Hope	1998
	Space Cowboys	Tank Sullivan	2000
	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke	2001
	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Shepard James 'Shep' Walker	2002
	The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration	Pat	2003
	The Notebook	Duke	2004
	The Ultimate Gift	Howard 'Red' Stevens	2006
	Battle for Terra	Doron	2007
	Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam	Shazam	2010