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Topic: James Garner, "Space Cowboys" actor, 1928-2014
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-20-2014 08:50 AM
Actor James Garner died Saturday (July 19) at his home in California. He was 86.Best known for his television roles in "Maverick" and "The Rockford Files," and in the 1963 film "The Great Escape," he portrayed Senator Norman Grant in the 1985 small screen adaptation of James Michener's "SPACE" and astronaut Tank Sullivan in 2000's "Space Cowboys." |
ea757grrl Member Posts: 729 From: South Carolina Registered: Jul 2006
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David Carey Member Posts: 782 From: Registered: Mar 2009
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mach3valkyrie Member Posts: 719 From: Albany, Oregon Registered: Jul 2006
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history in miniature Member Posts: 600 From: Slatington, PA Registered: Mar 2009
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Joel Katzowitz Member Posts: 808 From: Marietta GA USA Registered: Dec 1999
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 07-20-2014 01:19 PM
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E2M Lem Man Member Posts: 846 From: Los Angeles CA. USA Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-20-2014 02:05 PM
You may remember that one of his first roles was as a young test pilot at Edwards AFB in "Towards the Unknown" opposite William Holden. He never flew the X-2 in that film, but he died testing the "Gilbert XF-120" (the Martin XB-51 bomber). |
Kite Member Posts: 831 From: Northampton UK Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 07-20-2014 03:21 PM
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wickball Member Posts: 107 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 07-20-2014 03:21 PM
Space Cowboys. One of my favorites.. |
FlyBuzz11 Member Posts: 49 From: Fort Worth, Texas Registered: Nov 2012
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sev8n Member Posts: 233 From: Dallas TX USA Registered: Jul 2012
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GACspaceguy Member Posts: 2474 From: Guyton, GA Registered: Jan 2006
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spaceman Member Posts: 1104 From: Walsall, West Midlands, UK Registered: Dec 2002
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Henk Boshuijer Member Posts: 450 From: Netherlands Registered: May 2007
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Grounded! Member Posts: 367 From: Bennington, Vermont, USA Registered: Feb 2011
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dss65 Member Posts: 1156 From: Sandpoint, ID, USA Registered: Mar 2003
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randy Member Posts: 2176 From: West Jordan, Utah USA Registered: Dec 1999
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apolloprojeckt Member Posts: 1447 From: Arnhem, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2009
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Mike Isbell Member Posts: 551 From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA Registered: Aug 2003
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skye12 Member Posts: 49 From: Austin, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2001
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LM1 Member Posts: 667 From: New York, NY Registered: Oct 2010
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Lunar rock nut Member Posts: 911 From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A. Registered: Feb 2007
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uk spacefan Member Posts: 168 From: London Registered: Jan 2007
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gliderpilotuk Member Posts: 3398 From: London, UK Registered: Feb 2002
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OV-105 Member Posts: 816 From: Ridgecrest, CA Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 07-24-2014 06:34 AM
Come on, who hasn't done a "Rockford" turn at least once? . |
ColinBurgess Member Posts: 2031 From: Sydney, Australia Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 07-24-2014 06:44 AM
Back in the early 1960s my family would watch "Maverick" one night and then the next week it would be "Sugarfoot" on the same channel; the following week it was "Cheyenne," and finally "Bronco." Then the order would be repeated, so once a month I used to love watching James Garner and Jack Kelly as the rascally Maverick brothers - certainly my favourite of those four cowboy shows. James Garner was the consummate actor and created a truly unforgettable character (as he later did with Jim Rockford). I never took to the later "substitute" Mavericks such as Brent (Robert Colbert) and Beau (Roger Moore). And who can ever forget Garner in "Space Cowboys" - still for me playing Bret Maverick, but in a different outfit. |
Gilbert Member Posts: 1328 From: Carrollton, GA USA Registered: Jan 2003
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