What's your favorite James Garner role/film/series?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

I'll populate the poll with a bunch of mine but click 'other' and tell us what yours is.

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	Maverick
	2 (10%)
	Rockford
	9 (43%)
	Nichols
	0 (0%)
	Support Your Local Sheriff
	2 (10%)
	Murphy's Romance
	0 (0%)
	God, the Devil and Bob
	0 (0%)
	Great Escape
	4 (19%)
	My Fellow Americans
	2 (10%)
	Other
	2 (10%)
	Stuart Margolin's a Dingbat
	0 (0%)
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[shenmue]

1. The Rockford Files

Good show.

[Beaverhausen]

2. Victor Victoria

I admit I didn't see many of the others in your poll, but this film is one of my favs.

[onehandle]

4. Seconded. nt

[Glorfindel]

7. Yes! I thought he did a terrific job in that movie

[yellowdogintexas]

24. Thirded. That is one of my all time favorite movies

and he was so good as the conflicted Chicago thug.

[WinkyDink]

3. TRF! Watch it daily at noon on the ME-TV Channel!

[flamin lib]

5. The Notebook. nt

[pfitz59]

6. The Great Escape

Great role!

[rudolph the red]

27. The Scrounger, he played that character perfectly.

[femmocrat]

8. Besides Rockford, "The Americanization of Emily".

He also did a TV movie-- might have been with Ellen Burstyn--- about a professor who developed Alzheimer disease. Does anyone remember that one?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. That may have been the one with Mary Tyler Moore

He had a series of heart attacks or strokes that gradually led to dementia.

[Auggie]

34. He considered "The Americanization of Emily" his best film

In his book

[Courtesy Flush]

10. Rockford was the best.

In those days, TV private investigators were flawless and sophisticated. They never worried about collecting their fees either.

Rockford was more like what you'd find in the real world. He avoided dangerous situations. He lived in a trailer, and his dad lived with him. He also insisted on being paid.

Good program.

[OriginalGeek]

12. And the gold Firebird

I love Firebirds to this day - he's part of the reason.

[sarge43]

11. Support Your Local Sheriff. nt

[gejohnston]

13. all of them, but

I put Rockford Files.

[trueblue2007]

14. I LOVED HIM IN ..... VICTOR, VICTORIA

[El Supremo]

15. The Americanization of Emily

[MrMickeysMom]

16. Even though Rockford Files was my fav, my first crush was for him in Maverick...

Whatever I could dream up at the age of 9 was for this guy…

[First Speaker]

17. 36 Hours

...terrific film about a mindfuck...holds up very well...

[TeamPooka]

21. One of my faves too. Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint. Great plot and cast. Classic.

It's on TCM regularly.
I'm sure they will do a Garner retrospective now and will definitely play that one.

[cyberswede]

18. Philip Marlowe

Great movie, and he was terrific in the part.



I loved Rockford, of course. And he was terrific in Murphy's Romance (his character was a good liberal, as was Garner).

[grasswire]

19. King Marchand in VICTOR VICTORIA

My absolute favorite movie of all time.

Hilarious.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. that is one great movie isn't it?

Everyone was at the top of their game even the small bit actors.
Great script
Great slapstick

Blake Edwards' masterpiece.

[grasswire]

26. great music, too!

Henry Mancini.

[OrwellwasRight]

20. I have been a huge fan of his since watching the Rockford Files as a little kid.

Those awesome polyester pants he wears are exactly how my dad dressed in the 70s.

[Behind the Aegis]

22. Other: Tank

Horrible movie, but that was where I met him. He hung out with my parents and when my brother and I introduced ourselves, he knew who we were and was very nice. I just remember how big his hands were! He was a very gentle person, at least what I saw of him.

[The Second Stone]

23. I went Maverick over Rockford files

because it was a bit more lighthearted and fun. In both cases the character he played solved problems with his wits, not violence. I also loved the acting of the fellow who played Bart Maverick.

[valerief]

28. Victor/Victoria, hands down. That film was bust-a-bladder funny, and he was fantastic in it. nt

[Skittles]

29. Murphy's Romance

[hamsterjill]

30. I liked just about everything he did!

Just mentioning Space Cowboys here because it's not been mentioned yet. I thought it was cute!

[SecularMotion]

31. Barbarians At The Gate

[CBGLuthier]

32. All of them. Never saw him in anything, even the dreary Mr. Buddwing, that he did not

make worth watching.

One role I have not seen given enough mention was in the TV film My Name is Bill W. when he played Dr. Bob and broke our hearts. if I really had to pick it would be Support Your Local Sheriff because that was the first thing I really knew him from.

[TuxedoKat]

33. Grand Prix and Victor/Victoria

But I loved anything he was in. One of my favorite actors.