“Lady,” his Bret Maverick says to a scheming woman in ... (READ: James Poniewozik’s tribute to James Garner) Try to describe the character Garner created, and again you have to start by ...

James Garner, star of long-running TV shows ... Deaths of 2014 He had already achieved stardom as the gun-slinging Bret Maverick from 1957-1960, and reprised that character in the 1980s.

James Garner, who defined television's leading ... different style in the two roles that came to define his career. Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford -- both urbane, witty, often even funny ...

LOS ANGELES – Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the ... traditional Western heroes, Bret Maverick provided a fresh breath of air. With his sardonic tone and his eagerness to talk ...

Actor James Garner, whose wise-cracking but affable ... with his tongue than his fist was established early as gambler Bret Maverick in the 1950s TV Western Maverick, as The Associated Press ...

With nearly 100 acting credits to his name, James Garner was thriving ... Hearts during his service. In 1957, Garner began portraying the lead role of Bret Maverick in the western TV series ...

If James Garner were still alive ... where Garner grew up — is a 9-foot-bronze statue depicting Garner as Bret Maverick. Sculptor Shan Gray crafted the statue, using a DVD of Maverick episodes ...

James Garner, star of long-running TV shows ... He had already achieved stardom as the gun-slinging Bret Maverick from 1957-1960, and reprised that character in the 1980s.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: "Maverick," starring James Garner and Jack Kelly. RATH: As cool cowboy Bret Maverick, Garner quickly became an icon of the Hollywood Wild ...

Amiable actor James Garner, whose moderately successful film ... came in a role now indelibly associated with him, that of Bret Maverick in the comedic Western that ABC debuted in 1957; the ...

As Bret Maverick, the dapper roving gambler, Garner was anything but a traditional ... The youngest of three sons, he was born James Scott Bumgarner on April 7, 1928, in Norman, Okla.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: "Maverick," starring James Garner and Jack Kelly. RATH: As cool cowboy Bret Maverick, Garner quickly became an icon of the Hollywood Wild ...