--- --- # James Garner's Life in Photos by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 20, 2014 5:58 PM UTC by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 20, 2014 5:58 PM UTC  James Garner in an early headshot, circa 1955-1965. Pictorial Parade/Getty Images  Gardner, in his breakout role as Bret Maverick in the comedy Western series Maverick, 1959. ABC  Garner as Henry Tyroon and Lee Remick as Molly Thatcher in 'The Wheeler Dealers', 1963. Silver Screen Collectio/Getty Images  Donald Pleasance and Garner in a scene from The Great Escape, 1963. United Artists/Getty Images  A scene from the film 1966 film Grand Prix. MGM/Getty Images  Garner as detective Philip Marlowe, in Marlowe, directed by Paul Bogart, 1969. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images  As Jim Rockford in the series The Rockford Files. NBC/Getty Images  From Left: James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and Clint Eastwood pose for Warner Brothers Pictures' Space Cowboys in this July 2000 file photo. AP  Garner accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on Feb. 5, 2005 in Los Angeles. Kevin Winter—Getty Images James Garner's Life in Photos ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3009493/james-garners-life-in-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3009493/james-garners-life-in-photos/"},"headline":"James Garner's Life in Photos","datePublished":"2014-07-20T17:58:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:04.373Z","description":"The celebrated actor died at age 86","url":"https://time.com/3009493/james-garners-life-in-photos/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3009493/james-garners-life-in-photos/","name":"James Garner's Life in Photos"}}]}] ```