James Garner rose to fame as gambler Bret Maverick ... Roy Huggins had been the creative mind behind such hit TV series as "Maverick," "77 Sunset Strip" and "The Fugitive," and he conceived ...

The show — and his iconic character — proved so popular that eight Rockford Files TV movies followed. Garner, born James Scott Baumgarner ... he starred in a series of popular Polaroid ...

The series reunited Garner with Roy Huggins, the creator of a western television series (“Maverick”) that starred Garner. Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell created “The Rockford Files,” a ...

James Garner had a way of widening his eyes while ... But he was best known for his low-key, wisecracking style, especially on his hit TV series, "Maverick" and "The Rockford Files." ...

If James Garner were still alive ... man good looks and charm earned him starring roles in the 1950s Western TV series Maverick and the 1970s detective series The Rockford Files, among many ...

Emmy-winning actor James Garner always did ... shootouts were all the rage, Garner brought a touch of light comedy to “Maverick” and redefined what a TV Western could be.

With nearly 100 acting credits to his name, James Garner was thriving during ... the lead role of Bret Maverick in the western TV series Maverick. He appeared in 63 episodes of the show until ...

By Neil Genzlinger Stuart Margolin, a character actor best known for playing the sidekick to James Garner’s private detective on the hit series ... was all over television from the early ...

It had an all-time TV star in Garner. And it was considered the best of that decade’s wave of detective dramas, even winning the drama series Emmy ... Robert Iler, and James Gandolfini in ...

Television's surprise cancellation of "The Rockford Files," James Gamer's long-running private eye series, put one actor ... must be tempting indeed for Mr. Garner, a long-time motorsport ...