Holy Sh*t - no one posted that James Garner is still dead. He was a great actor and I loved him in Maverick - I'm so old I remember this series and would stop playing outside just to watch it. A massive sacrifice for a young kid. Anyway, I hope James resurrects himself. He was great.
James Garner dies at 86; TV antihero of 'Maverick,' 'Rockford Files' [LA Times Obit]
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituar...ry.html#page=1
From above link
If Sam Spade was a tough guy, Jim Rockford was … well, he could throw a punch, but he didn't like to because it hurt his hand..
Rockford's idea of a good time was eating Oreos and fishing with his dad, not spending a lost weekend with some smoky blonde. And tough talk just wasn't his thing; when some hood was beating the tar out of him, Rockford sputtered, "Does your mother have any idea what you do for a living?"
Still, the perennially broke investigator always managed to set things right, and by the end of every episode of "The Rockford Files," Rockford — a.k.a. actor James Garner — also gave viewers something they weren't getting from other tough guy heroes: laughs.
Garner, a master of light comedy who won an Emmy as Rockford and earlier had shot to fame as a charming and dry-witted gambler on the hit TV western "Maverick," died Saturday at his Los Angeles home. He was 86.