"Maverick" galloped onto TV screens in 1957, with James Garner on the lookout for high-stakes poker games, double-dealing hucksters and pretty ladies. Season one of the classic Western series ...

Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western “Maverick” led to a stellar career in TV and films such as “The Rockford Files” and his Oscar-nominated “Murphy's ...

James Garner dies at 86; TV antihero of ‘Maverick,’ ‘Rockford Files’ 1 / 2 James Garner (1928-2014) -- An Emmy Award-winning actor who rose to fame playing the wisecracking Bret Maverick ...

Actor James Garner, whose wise-cracking but affable character made hits out of the TV shows Maverick and The Rockford Files, has died. He was 86.

Warners put the actor under contract at $175 a week, shortened his name to Garner, and launched him in Maverick, a Roy Huggins Western that went on the air Sept. 22, 1957, against CBS’s The Ed ...

Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western "Maverick" led to a stellar career in TV and films, including hits like "The Rockford Files" and his Oscar-nominated "Murphy's ...

LOS ANGELES — Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western “Maverick” led to a stellar career in TV and films such as “The Rockford Files” and his Oscar-nominated ...

Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western "Maverick" led to a stellar career in TV and films such as "The Rockford Files" and his Oscar-nominated "Murphy's Romance," has ...

LOS ANGELES – Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western “Maverick” led to a stellar career in TV and films such as “The Rockford Files” and his Oscar-nominated ...

Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western “Maverick” led to a stellar career in TV and films such as “The Rockford Files” and his Oscar-nominated “Murphy’s ...

Here’s why we loved James Garner’s TV characters: because they reassured us that even guys with no visible heroic traits could somehow beat the bad guys in the end. Bret Maverick and Ji… ...

Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western "Maverick" led to a stellar career in TV and films such as "The Rockford Files" and his Oscar-nominated "Murphy's Romance," has ...