R.I.P. James Garner, 1928-2014 ::posted Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:55:43 +0000:: ift.tt/1k74sdI Some sad news today out of Hollywood: James Garner, a master of light comedy who shot to fame in the 1950s as the charming and dry-witted gambler on the hit TV western Maverick and later won an Emmy Award as the unconventional L.A. private eye on The Rockford Files, has died. He was 86. Garner died Saturday at his home, his publicist Jennifer Allen told The Times. Garner, who lived in Los Angeles, underwent quintuple bypass heart surgery in 1988 and suffered a stroke in 2008. He had been in poor health for some time but the cause of his death was not immediately known. Once described by Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales as having embodied the crusty, sardonic and self-effacing strain of American masculinity in his iconic roles as Maverick and Rockford, the Oklahoma-born Garner amassed more than 80 movie and TV-movie credits during his more than 50-year career. An off-screen Hollywood maverick who successfully battled two studios in court, Garner easily moved between small screen and big screen in roles ranging from light comedy to drama. I have long thought that Jim Garner was one of the best actors around, filmmaker Robert Altman, who directed him in the 1980 comedy Health, told Esquire magazine in 1979. He is often overlooked because he makes it look so easy, and that is not easy to do, Altman said. I dont know anyone in the business with his charm and charisma who can act so well. read more [Forwarded by the MyLeftBlogosphere news engine. Link to original post below:]
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