wisecracking characters you’d really struggle to dislike. Bret Maverick is one such figure, a slippery, double-dealing con-artist with the kind of happy go lucky attitude that’d prompt you to ...

He came back to play the character in several TV movies in the 1990s. See photos: Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2014 He had already achieved stardom as the gun-slinging Bret Maverick from 1957 ...

“Lady,” his Bret Maverick says to a scheming woman in an early episode, “I never worry about anything.” The actor’s ease with his character and himself made Maverick a welcome weekly ...

4.Paul Newman was originally offered the role of Bret Maverick, but ultimately turned ... Donner was inspired to add that element to the character after Jodie Foster fell out of a stagecoach ...

Beau Maverick (played by James Garner), father of Bret and Bart announces that he is getting married. The Maverick boys discover that the marriage is a business arrangement, not a love commitment.

I relish research, and it was worth the two bucks. Bret Maverick (James Garner), an adroitly articulate cardsharp, was always seeking out high-stakes games. One of the more notable gambling ...

The real boost to his career came in a role now indelibly associated with him, that of Bret Maverick ... but “Maverick” quickly became all about Garner’s character, who used his wits to ...