"Maverick (film) Maverick is a 1994 American western comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by William Goldman. Based on the 1950s television series of the same name created by Roy Huggins, the film stars Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick, a card player and con artist collecting money to enter a high-stakes poker game. He is joined in his adventure by Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster), another con artist, and lawman Marshall Zane Cooper (James Garner). The supporting cast features Graham Greene, James Coburn, Alfred Molina and a large number of cameo appearances by Western film actors, country music stars"
"Jack Kelly (actor) John Augustus Kelly Jr. (September 16, 1927 – November 7, 1992), best known as Jack Kelly, was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of ""Bart Maverick"" in the television series ""Maverick"", which ran on ABC from 1957-62. Kelly shared the series, rotating as the lead from week to week, first with James Garner as Bret Maverick (1957–1960) then with Roger Moore as Beau Maverick (1960–1961) and Robert Colbert as Brent Maverick (1961, for two episodes), before becoming the only Maverick (alternating with repeats from the Garner era) in the fifth season. Kelly"
"business, and wrote a book about it, ""The Truth about Being an Extra"" (2006). A Republican, he supported Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election. Jack Kelly (actor) John Augustus Kelly Jr. (September 16, 1927 – November 7, 1992), best known as Jack Kelly, was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of ""Bart Maverick"" in the television series ""Maverick"", which ran on ABC from 1957-62. Kelly shared the series, rotating as the lead from week to week, first with James Garner as Bret Maverick (1957–1960) then with Roger Moore as Beau Maverick (1960–1961) and Robert"
"The New Maverick The New Maverick is a 1978 American made-for-television western film based on the 1957–1962 television series ""Maverick"" starring James Garner as Bret Maverick, Charles Frank as newcomer cousin Ben Maverick (son of Beau Maverick), Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, and Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice Ivers. James Garner and Jack Kelly had been 29 and 30 years old, respectively, at the beginning of the original series and were 50 and 51 while filming ""The New Maverick"". The TV-movie was a pilot for the series ""Young Maverick"", which featured Frank and only lasted a few episodes. Directed by"
"are few people on this planet I have adored as much as Jimmy Garner. I cherish every moment I spent with him and relive them over and over in my head. He was a diamond."" Eastwood said, ""Garner opened the door for people like Steve McQueen and myself."" James Garner James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western series ""Maverick"" and Jim Rockford in ""The"
"panel drawings of Garner were eerily exact, while his later ones of Jack Kelly as Bart, Roger Moore as Beau, and Robert Colbert as Brent (inaccurately referred to as ""Bret"" in the comic book version) bore practically no resemblance to the actual actors. On 21 April 2006, a bronze statue of James Garner as Bret Maverick was unveiled in Garner's hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, with Garner present. Two different books on the ""Maverick"" TV series were published in 1994, one by Burl Barer and the other by Ed Robertson, and serve as the main sources for the background information in"
"Catherine McLeod Catherine McLeod (July 2, 1921 – May 11, 1997) was an American actress who made over sixty television and movie appearances between 1944 and 1976. She memorably portrayed the one woman whom James Garner's character Bret Maverick wanted to marry on the 1957 ABC/Warner Brothers television series ""Maverick"", in the episode ""Rage for Vengeance."" McLeod was born in Santa Monica, California. Her schooling came in an Alhambra convent. She acted in a Los Angeles little theater and studied in the Bliss-Hayden drama workshop. She worked in a movie theater in Reno and later became a chorus girl in"
"read and enjoyed their letters. Despite this diagnosis, she said he was still physically healthy and did not require medication. Thereafter, Diane Breck reported that her husband was hospitalised on January 10, 2012. On February 6, 2012 Peter Breck died from his illness at the age of 82 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Peter Breck Joseph Peter Breck (March 13, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American character actor. The rugged, dark-haired Breck played the gambler and gunfighter Doc Holliday on the ABC/Warner Bros. television series ""Maverick"" but is best known for his role as Victoria Barkley's (Barbara Stanwyck) hot-tempered,"
"James Garner James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western series ""Maverick"" and Jim Rockford in ""The Rockford Files"", and played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including ""The Great Escape"" (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's ""The Americanization of Emily"" (1964), ""Grand Prix"" (1966), Blake Edwards' ""Victor/Victoria"" (1982), ""Murphy's Romance"" (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, ""Space Cowboys"" (2000)"
"Peter Breck Joseph Peter Breck (March 13, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American character actor. The rugged, dark-haired Breck played the gambler and gunfighter Doc Holliday on the ABC/Warner Bros. television series ""Maverick"" but is best known for his role as Victoria Barkley's (Barbara Stanwyck) hot-tempered, middle son Nick in the 1960s ABC/Four Star Western, ""The Big Valley"". Breck was also the leading man in an earlier ABC/Four Star Western television series entitled ""Black Saddle"". Joseph John Peter Breck was born in Rochester, New York. He grew up living with his grandparents in Haverhill, Massachusetts, because they felt"
"financial adviser Irving Leonard, who advised Clint Eastwood in the late 1950s and 1960s. After several feature film roles, including ""Sayonara"" with Marlon Brando, Garner got his big break playing the role of professional gambler Bret Maverick in the Western series ""Maverick"" from 1957-1960. Only Garner and series creator Roy Huggins thought ""Maverick"" could compete with ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" and ""The Steve Allen Show"". The show almost immediately made Garner a household name. Garner was the lone star of ""Maverick"" for the first seven episodes, but production demands forced the studio, Warner Brothers (Warners), to create a Maverick brother,"
"Bret Maverick Bret Maverick is an American Western NBC television series starring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 series created by Roy Huggins and entitled ""Maverick"": a professional poker player traveling alone year after year through the Old West from riverboat to saloon. In this sequel series, Maverick has settled down in Sweetwater, Arizona Territory, where he owns a ranch (The Lazy Ace) and is co-owner of the town's saloon (The Red Ox). However, Maverick is still always on the lookout for his next big score, and continues to gamble and practice various con"
"that Frank met his wife Susan Blanchard, who played his character's wife, Mary Kennicott Martin. They married in 1977 and have one child. Charles Frank Charles Reser Frank (born April 17, 1947) is an American actor noted for playing Bret Maverick's cousin Ben Maverick in the 1978 TV-movie ""The New Maverick"" with James Garner and Jack Kelly, and in the short-lived 1979 television series ""Young Maverick"". He graduated with the class of 1969 from Middlebury College in Vermont. From 1970-74 (and again in 1988 and 1995), Frank played Dr. Jeff Martin on the ABC soap opera ""All My Children"". In"
"""36 Hours"" (1965) with Eva Marie Saint, ""The Art of Love"" (1965) with Dick Van Dyke and []Elke Sommer]], as Wyatt Earp in ""Hour of the Gun"" (1967) with Jason Robards, ""Marlowe"" (1969) with Bruce Lee, ""Support Your Local Sheriff!"" (1969) with Walter Brennan, ""Murphy's Romance"" (1985) with Sally Field, as Wyatt Earp in ""Sunset"" (1988) with Bruce Willis, ""Maverick"" (1994) with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, ""Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"" (2002), and ""The Notebook"" (2004) with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. His television series credits include portraying Bret Maverick in ""Maverick"" (1957–1962), ""The New Maverick"" (1978 TV-movie),"
"to conjecture; some assume that he was actually portraying Bret's father Beau ""Pappy"" Maverick. A ""Making of"" mini-documentary was broadcast on cable stations prior to the film's release that included no footage of Garner from the original series despite both the movie and television series having been produced by the same studio. During the height of the TV show's popularity, the Maverick brothers starred in a comic book drawn by Dan Spiegle. Spiegle met Garner at the studio before the first ""Maverick"" comic was drawn because no publicity photographs were available yet. The eventual result was that many of Spiegle's"
"Matthew Broderick Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor and singer. His roles include the title character in ""Ferris Bueller's Day Off"" (1986), the voice of the adult Simba in Disney's ""The Lion King"" trilogy (1994–2004), David Lightman in the Cold War thriller ""WarGames"" (1983), and Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of ""The Producers"" (2005), and John Brown in Inspector Gadget (1999). Broderick has won two Tony Awards, one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" (1983), and one for Best Actor in a Musical for ""How to Succeed in Business Without"
"Robert Colbert Robert Colbert (born July 26, 1931) is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the ABC television series ""The Time Tunnel"" and his two appearances as Brent Maverick, a third Maverick brother in the ABC/Warner Brothers western, ""Maverick"" starring James Garner, Jack Kelly and Roger Moore. Colbert began acting when he was a soldier based on the Pacific island of Okinawa. He was a clerk typist with a Military Police unit and also worked as a disc jockey for Radio Station KSBK-AM in the evenings. A woman in Air Force Special"
"the highest bidder for the episode reruns. Garner and Jack Kelly reappeared as Bret and Bart Maverick in a 1978 made-for-television film entitled ""The New Maverick"", which served as the pilot for a failed series, ""Young Maverick"", starring Charles Frank as a younger cousin named Ben Maverick. The series itself, which only featured Garner for a few moments at the beginning of the first show, was canceled so rapidly that some of the episodes filmed were never broadcast. After the abrupt disappearance of ""Young Maverick"" two seasons earlier, an attempt to make a ""Maverick"" series without Garner, he returned to"
"the ceremony. On April 22, 2014, Warner Bros. released ""Bret Maverick: The Complete Series"" on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time, via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the United States. The series has reaired on Encore Westerns since fall 2008. Bret Maverick Bret Maverick is an American Western NBC television series starring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 series created by Roy Huggins and entitled ""Maverick"": a professional poker player traveling alone year after year through the"
"""The New Maverick"", which featured both Garner as Bret and Jack Kelly as his brother Bart. Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series ""Bret Maverick"", trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations. The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series ""Maverick"", catching up with professional poker-player Bret Maverick (James Garner). The film, written by Gordon T. Dawson and directed by Stuart Margolin, occasionally appears under the simpler title Bret Maverick. The real pilot, however, of both this"
"Charles Frank Charles Reser Frank (born April 17, 1947) is an American actor noted for playing Bret Maverick's cousin Ben Maverick in the 1978 TV-movie ""The New Maverick"" with James Garner and Jack Kelly, and in the short-lived 1979 television series ""Young Maverick"". He graduated with the class of 1969 from Middlebury College in Vermont. From 1970-74 (and again in 1988 and 1995), Frank played Dr. Jeff Martin on the ABC soap opera ""All My Children"". In 2006, it was announced that the character would be taken over by John James, formerly of ABC's ""Dynasty"" series. He also appeared twice"
"Hy Averback and written by Juanita Bartlett, the movie was filmed while Garner's series ""The Rockford Files"" was on hiatus. Garner would later star in ""Bret Maverick"", another attempt at a television series revival inspired by this TV-movie, for the 1981-82 season. The New Maverick The New Maverick is a 1978 American made-for-television western film based on the 1957–1962 television series ""Maverick"" starring James Garner as Bret Maverick, Charles Frank as newcomer cousin Ben Maverick (son of Beau Maverick), Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, and Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice Ivers. James Garner and Jack Kelly had been 29 and"
"although he had already appeared in several movies, including ""Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend"" with Randolph Scott, and had filmed an important supporting role in ""Sayonara"" with Marlon Brando, which wasn't released until December 1957 but had been viewed by Huggins and the Warner Bros. staff casting their new television series. ""Maverick"" often bested ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" and ""The Steve Allen Show"" in the television ratings. Huggins inverted the usual cowboy hero characteristics familiar to television and movie viewers of the time. Bret Maverick was vocally reluctant to risk his life, though he typically ended up being courageous in spite"
"... Doc Baxter<br> James Griffith ... John Wesley Hardin<br> Clarke Alexander ... Sheriff<br> Linda Lawson ... Lily<br> Myrna Fahey ... Susie<br> Ed Reimers ... Announcer (voice) Duel at Sundown (Maverick) ""Duel at Sundown"" is a 1959 episode of the Western comedy television series ""Maverick"" starring 31-year-old James Garner and 29-year-old Clint Eastwood. A mean killer (Eastwood) becomes jealous when Bret Maverick (Garner) begins spending time with his girlfriend (Abby Dalton), the daughter of Bret's old friend (Edgar Buchanan), who desperately wants Bret to marry her before Eastwood's evil character does so. An epic fistfight between Garner and Eastwood segues into"
"The new series involves Bret Maverick settling down in a small town in Arizona after winning a saloon in a poker game. The two-hour pilot episode was reedited as the TV-movie """" and the series' only two-part episode was later marketed as a TV-movie entitled """". ""Bret Maverick"" ends on a sentimental note, with Bret and Bart embracing during an unexpected encounter, and the theme from the original series playing in the background. """" (1991) featured Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick for the last time. The TV-movie briefly depicted Kelly and other Western characters and actors from various earlier television"
"Duel at Sundown (Maverick) ""Duel at Sundown"" is a 1959 episode of the Western comedy television series ""Maverick"" starring 31-year-old James Garner and 29-year-old Clint Eastwood. A mean killer (Eastwood) becomes jealous when Bret Maverick (Garner) begins spending time with his girlfriend (Abby Dalton), the daughter of Bret's old friend (Edgar Buchanan), who desperately wants Bret to marry her before Eastwood's evil character does so. An epic fistfight between Garner and Eastwood segues into a surprising showdown between Bret and gunslinger John Wesley Hardin in which Maverick fans his pistol. ""Hardin"" turns out to be Bret's brother Bart (Jack Kelly),"
"his parents had originally intended for him to have the middle name ""Maverick"", after the title character in the popular James Garner TV Western series ""Maverick"". He is of Carpatho-Rusyn (from his paternal grandfather), Irish, English, German, and Swiss descent. Bret's great-uncle Nick Sychak fought at Omaha Beach in the Invasion of Normandy and was killed in action in France in 1944. At the age of 6, Michaels fell ill, and during a three-week stay in the hospital, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Michaels began playing the guitar as a teenager, forming a band with drummer Rikki Rockett,"
"Ramon Bieri Ramon Arens Bieri (June 16, 1929 – May 27, 2001) was an American actor who starred in many films and TV shows. Bieri starred as the title character in the NBC sitcom ""Joe's World"", from December 1979 to July 1980, playing Joe Wabash, a Detroit housepainter with a wife and five kids. He co-starred on the short-lived 1981 TV series ""Bret Maverick"" with James Garner, as banker Elijah Crow. Bieri appeared in many TV movies as well. In 1971-1972, he played Lieutenant Barney Verick in the NBC drama ""Sarge"". His movie roles range from ""Badlands"", ""The Sicilian"", ""The"
"Maverick (TV series) Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962, on ABC. Maverick initially starred James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart Maverick, and for the remainder of the first three seasons, Garner and Kelly basically alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Maverick brothers were poker players"
"quite work was that Maverick, traditionally a drifter, had settled down in one place. Jack Kelly, who had alternated the lead with Garner and later Roger Moore in the original 1957-62 ""Maverick"" series, had been slated to return as Bret's brother Bart Maverick in the second season, and briefly appeared at the very end of the only season. A number of scripts for the following season had been written and presented to Kelly, according to subsequent interviews; Bart was going to look after the saloon in Arizona while Bret ranged across the West, thereby making this series closer in conception"
"never aired on the network. All eight episodes were screened later that year on BBC1 in the UK. The 1978 TV-movie ""The New Maverick"", featuring Garner as Bret, Frank as Ben, Jack Kelly as Bret's brother Bart Maverick, and Blanchard as Nell, served as the pilot for the series. (Garner appeared briefly in the first regular episode of ""Young Maverick"", ""Clancy,"" making him the only person to appear in all three series.) Among the actors appearing on the series were Howard Duff, John McIntire, James Woods, Donna Mills (all in ""Dead Man's Hand,"" parts 1 and 2), J. Pat O'Malley"
"Young Maverick Young Maverick is a 1979 television series and a sequel to the 1957–1962 series ""Maverick"", which had starred James Garner as roving gambler Bret Maverick. Charles Frank played Ben Maverick, the son of Bret's first cousin Beau Maverick, making him Bret's first cousin once removed (second cousin). Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard played his girlfriend Nell, while John Dehner (who appeared in ""Maverick""'s ""Shady Deal At Sunny Acres"") appeared as a frontier marshal who had arrested Ben's father Beau decades before. The series was cancelled by CBS after six hour-long episodes had been shown, leaving two which were"
"along with guest roles on ""Fireside Theater"", ""Schlitz Playhouse of Stars"", ""Lux Video Theatre"", and ""Gunsmoke"". The various anti-heroic Mavericks were dapper professional poker-players roaming the Old West with the benefit of superb scripts. The series had an enormous cultural impact during a time when there were only three television networks and most cities had only three TV channels to choose from. ""Maverick""'s demanding filming schedule had caused production to lag behind early on. The producers decided to give Bret Maverick (James Garner) a brother so as not to run out of episodes long before the end of the season."