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James Garner
James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor.
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...
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Battle for Terra
Battle for Terra, originally screened as Terra, is a 2007 computer animated science fiction film, based on a short film of the same name about a peaceful alien planet which faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human...
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36 Hours
36 Hours is a 1965 suspense film, based on a short story by Roald Dahl, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Rod Taylor, and directed by George Seaton. An American officer is deceived into believing that he has suffered from amnesia and that...
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Atlantis: The Lost Empire is the 41st Walt Disney Animated Classics produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 15, 2001. It was the first science-fiction entry to the Disney animated features canon. The...
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Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate is a television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
The film was directed by Glenn Jordan and stars James Garner as F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of R.J.R....
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a 2002 film directed by Callie Khouri. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Rebecca Wells.
"Divine Secrets" opens with an introduction to the Ya-Yas as little girls, forging the alliance of...
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Fire in the Sky
Fire in the Sky is a 1993 science fiction film, directed by Robert Lieberman, and written by Travis Walton (from his book The Walton Experience) and Tracy Tormé (screenplay). The film stars D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg...
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Grand Prix
Grand Prix is an action film released in 1966. It was directed by John Frankenheimer with music by Maurice Jarre. It starred James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato. Toshirô Mifune has a supporting role as a...
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Health
HealtH (also known as Health and H.E.A.L.T.H.) is a 1980 film directed by Robert Altman. Generally considered to be one of Altman's more underrated movies, HealtH takes a satirical look behind the scenes at a health-food convention at a Florida...
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Maverick
Maverick is a 1994 Western comedy film based on the 1950s television series of the same name, created by Roy Huggins. The film was directed by Richard Donner from a screenplay by William Goldman and features Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James...
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Murphy's Romance
Murphy's Romance is a 1985 romance/comedy film adapted by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch from a story by Max Schott and directed by Martin Ritt. The movie stars Sally Field (also executive producer), James Garner, Brian Kerwin and Corey Haim....
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- Murphy Jones
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My Name is Bill W.
My Name Is Bill W. is a 1989 CBS television movie directed by Daniel Petrie, starring James Woods and James Garner. The movie is based on the true story of Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. James Woods won an Emmy for his portrayal of...
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Sayonara
Sayonara is 1957 color (Technicolor) American film. It tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was...
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Space Cowboys
Space Cowboys is a 2000 science fiction/adventure/comedy film directed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood also stars in the film alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair...
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Sunset
Sunset is a 1988 film released by TriStar Pictures. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, the movie stars Bruce Willis as legendary western actor Tom Mix and James Garner as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
The story is based on Rod Amateau's novel...
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The Americanization of Emily
The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Paddy Chayefsky, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie. Set in London in 1944 during World War II, in...
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The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a 1963 film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. It is based on the book The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, which is a novelization of the true story of a mass escape from Stalag...
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The Ultimate Gift
The Ultimate Gift is a film based on author Jim Stovall's bestselling novel released on March 9, 2007 in 816 theaters. The film was not well attended and produced low box office receipts, though DVD sales were quite high in relation to its...
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Victor/Victoria
Victor Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film, which involves transvestism and sexual identity as central themes. It stars Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras and John Rhys-Davies. The film was produced by...
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Up Periscope
Up Periscope is a 1959 World War II drama starring James Garner as a Navy frogman fighting the Japanese. The supporting cast includes Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, and Alan Hale, Jr. The movie was written by Richard H. Landau and Robb White from...
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The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (known internationally as The Land Before Time X: The Great Migration) is the tenth film in the Land Before Time series. At 84 minutes, it is the longest film in the Land Before Time series of...
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Tank
Tank is a 1984 comedy, drama, and action movie starring James Garner, Shirley Jones, and C. Thomas Howell. The film was written by Dan Gordon and directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. It was produced by Lorimar Productions and was commercially released in...
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The Wheeler Dealers
The Wheeler Dealers (released as Separate Beds in the UK) is a 1963 comedy film starring James Garner and Lee Remick and featuring Chill Wills and Jim Backus. The film was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach, based on Goodman's novel, and...
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
Support Your Local Sheriff! is a 1969 American comic western film which parodies the often-filmed scenario of an iconoclastic new arrival who tames a lawless frontier town. Starring James Garner, Joan Hackett and Jack Elam, the film was directed by...
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My Fellow Americans
My Fellow Americans is a 1996 comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents. Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford and Jeff Yagher also appear in supporting performances. The film is...
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A Man Called Sledge
A Man Called Sledge is a 1970 spaghetti western starring James Garner in an extremely offbeat role as a grimly evil thief, and featuring Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins, and Wayde Preston. The film was written by Vic Morrow and Frank Kowalski, and was...
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Cash McCall
Cash McCall is a 1960 movie starring James Garner and Natalie Wood, based upon the novel of the same name by Cameron Hawley about a man who buys businesses in order to sell them at a profit. Recognized by critics as decades ahead of its time in...
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The Castaway Cowboy
The Castaway Cowboy is a 1974 adventure film starring James Garner, Vera Miles, and Robert Culp. Filmed on location in Hawaii, the movie was written by Don Tait and Richard M. Bluel, and directed by Vincent McEveety.
James Garner as Lincoln Costain...
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The Thrill of It All
The Thrill of It All (1963) is a romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison starring Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, and ZaSu Pitts. The screenplay was written by Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner. Reiner also plays a cameo as a character...
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Boys' Night Out
Boys' Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon. The movie is about three middle-aged, married men who are looking to meet needs that are not being...
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Move Over, Darling
Move Over, Darling (a.k.a.: Something's Got to Give) is a 1963 remake of the 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife that starred Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott. The remake stars Doris Day, James Garner, and Polly Bergen.
Ellen Wagstaff...
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Mister Buddwing
Mister Buddwing is a 1966 American film about a well-dressed man (James Garner) who finds himself on a bench in Central Park with no idea of who he is. He proceeds to wander around Manhattan meeting women (Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine...
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Darby's Rangers
Darby's Rangers is a 1958 Warner Brothers black and white war film starring James Garner as William Orlando Darby, World War II commander of the 1st Ranger Battalion.
Major William Darby (Garner) is a staff officer who is placed in command of the...
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Duel at Diablo
Duel at Diablo is a 1966 western film starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier. Based on Marvin H. Albert's novel Apache Rising, the film was written by Albert and Michael M. Grilikhes and directed by Ralph Nelson. The supporting cast includes Bibi...
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The Children's Hour
The Children's Hour is a 1961 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman.
The film, released as The Loudest Whisper in the United Kingdom, is a...
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Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace
Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series Bret Maverick, trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations. The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series...
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The Fan
The Fan is a 1981 thriller about a stalker menacing a movie star. It stars Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, James Garner and Maureen Stapleton. It was written by Priscilla Chapman and John Hartwell, based on the novel of the same name by Bob Randall,...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter!
Support Your Local Gunfighter is a 1971 comic western film directed by Burt Kennedy and written by James Edward Grant. The film shares many cast and crew members and plot elements with the earlier Support Your Local Sheriff!, but is not a sequel....
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The Art of Love
The Art of Love is a 1965 comedy film starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, and Angie Dickinson. The film involves an American artist in Paris (Van Dyke) who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new...
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Alias Jesse James
Alias Jesse James (1959) is a Bob Hope western comedy movie that featured a number of movie and television frontiersmen (James Garner as Bret Maverick, Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, Hugh O'Brien as Wyatt Earp, James Arness...
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Decoration Day
Decoration Day is a 1990 film based on a novel by John William Corrington of the same title. The award-winning made-for-TV movie was directed by Robert Markowitz and filmed on location in Georgia.
James Garner plays a retired judge and recluse who...
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Skin Game
Skin Game is a 1971 movie comedy starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr.
Quincy Drew (Garner) and Jason O'Rourke (Gossett) travel from town to town in the south of the United States during the slavery era. Quincy Drew claims to be a down-on-his...
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A Man Could Get Killed
A Man Could Get Killed is a 1966 adventure comedy film shot on location around the Mediterranean and starring James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Anthony Franciosa, and Robert Coote. The film was written by David E. Walker (from his novel...
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Nobody's Perfect
Nobody's Perfect is a naval comedy about the USS Bustard and the antics of her crew. It is based on the novel The Crows of Edwina Hill by Allan R. Bosworth.
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Marlowe
Marlowe (1969) is a neo-noir drama film directed by Paul Bogart. The mystery film was written by Stirling Silliphant based on Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel The Little Sister. It features James Garner as the author's fictional private detective...
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The New Maverick
The New Maverick is a 1978 made-for-TV movie based on the 1957 television series Maverick, with James Garner as Bret Maverick, Charles Frank as newcomer cousin Ben Maverick (son of Beau Maverick), Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, and Susan Sullivan as ...
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The Pink Jungle
The Pink Jungle is a 1968 movie thriller about an adventurous fashion photographer (James Garner) searching for a diamond mine in the South American jungle. The supporting cast includes George Kennedy and Eva Renzi. The film was directed by Delbert...
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Hour of the Gun
Hour of the Gun is 1967 Western film about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers, in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona.
The film is based on...
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The Last Debate
The Last Debate is a 2000 political film based on the book by and co-written by the journalist and writer Jim Lehrer.
A televised presidential debate has a conspiracy behind it.
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One Little Indian
One Little Indian is a 1973 western Walt Disney movie starring James Garner and Vera Miles. The supporting cast includes Pat Hingle, Jay Silverheels, and an 11-year-old Jodie Foster, and the plotline involves a cavalry soldier's misadventures with a...
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The Notebook
The Notebook is a 2004 United States romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as Noah and Allie, a young couple who fall in love during...
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LaFayette Escadrille
Lafayette Escadrille is an American war film, released in March of 1958 by Warner Bros., starring Tab Hunter, David Janssen and Will Hutchins and featuring Clint Eastwood in an early supporting role. The film is directed by William A. Wellman.
The...
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- Uncredited
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Heartsounds
Heartsounds is a film directed by Glenn Jordan.
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- Harold Lear
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Promise
Promise is a 1986 made-for-television movie directed by Glenn Jordan.
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- Bob Beuhler
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Twilight
Twilight is a 1998 thriller/Neo-noir film directed by Robert Benton. It stars Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, and James Garner. The screenplay was written by Benton and Richard Russo, and the original...
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