"fistfight in an episode titled ""Duel at Sundown"", in which Eastwood played a vicious gunslinger. Critics were positive about the chemistry between Garner and Kelly, but Garner quit the series after the third season because of a dispute with Warners. Garner did make one fourth-season ""Maverick"" appearance, in an episode filmed in the third season but held back. The studio attempted to replace Garner's character with a Maverick cousin who had lived in Britain long enough to pick up an English accent, portrayed by Roger Moore, but Moore quit the series after filming only 14 episodes as Beau Maverick. Warners"
"Moore was cast as Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick (James Garner), Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly), and Brent Maverick (Robert Colbert) in the much more successful ABC/WB Western series ""Maverick"". Sean Connery was flown over from Britain to test for the part, but turned it down. Moore appeared as the character in 14 episodes after Garner had left the series at the end of the previous season, wearing some of Garner's costumes; while filming ""The Alaskans"", he had already recited much of Garner's dialogue since the Klondike series frequently recycled ""Maverick"" scripts, changing only the names"
"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"
"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"
"and locales. He had also filmed a ""Maverick"" episode with Garner two seasons earlier in which Moore played a different character in a retooling of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 comedy of manners play entitled ""The Rivals"". In the course of the story, Moore and Garner's characters switched names on a bet, with Moore consequently identifying himself as ""Bret Maverick"" through most of the episode. Moore's debut as Beau Maverick occurred in the first episode of the 1960–61 fourth season, ""The Bundle From Britain"", one of four episodes in which he shared screen time with cousin Bart (Jack Kelly). Robert Altman"
"in which Bart appeared tended to be somewhat more dramatic than the Bret episodes, Kelly displayed his comedic skills in lighter ""Maverick"" outings such as ""Hadley's Hunters"" and ""The People's Friend."" Kelly actually appeared in more episodes of ""Maverick"" than James Garner, who left the show following a contract dispute in 1960. Kelly appeared in 83 episodes; Garner in only 65. In the wake of Garner's departure, Roger Moore stepped in to play Bart's cousin Beau Maverick in fourteen episodes, sharing the screen with Kelly in three of them, while Robert Colbert appeared in two installments as a third brother"
"McKay. Her last 1960 TV appearance was as Irish lass Deidre Fogarty whose sympathies lay with ""The Bold Fenian Men"", the December 18 episode of Warners' most highly rated western, ""Maverick"". The plot arranged still another romantic character pairing for her, with episode star Roger Moore in the role of cousin Beauregard ""Beau"" Maverick, who is taken by the Fenians to be their visiting compatriot Beau O'Maverick, giving the U.S. Army an opportunity to take advantage of the misunderstanding and instruct Beau to go along with the charade in hopes of uncovering a suspected plan by the conspirators to invade"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"series, including ""Bat Masterson"" (Gene Barry), ""Wyatt Earp"" (Hugh O'Brian), the ""Rifleman"" (Chuck Connors) and his son Mark (Johnny Crawford), Caine from ""Kung Fu"" (David Carradine), ""The Westerner"" (Brian Keith), a thinly disguised ""Virginian"" (James Drury) and Trampas (Doug McClure, who had appeared briefly as a hotel clerk in a first season ""Maverick"" episode), and ""Cheyenne"" Bodie (Clint Walker). As each hero appears onscreen, a few bars of the theme song from his original series plays in the background. A lavish theatrical film version was released in 1994 entitled ""Maverick"" starring Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick, Jodie Foster as a"
"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"
"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"
"Beau Starr Beau Starr (born September 1, 1944) is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is known for his film role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the 1988 hit horror movie """"; he reprised his role in the 1989 sequel """". Many also remember him as Lt. Harding Welsh in ""Due South"". Starr was born in Queens, New York, to a retail employee mother and a meatpacker father. His brother is actor Mike Starr. Beau Starr's well-known television role was in the 1990s Canadian television series ""Due South"" as Lieutenant Harding Welsh of the"
"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"
"guest appearances on television series, including ""T.J. Hooker"", ""The A-Team"", ""Knight Rider"", ""Hill Street Blues"", ""V: The Series"", ""The 4400"", ""A Nero Wolfe Mystery"" and "" NYPD Blue. Beau Starr Beau Starr (born September 1, 1944) is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is known for his film role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the 1988 hit horror movie """"; he reprised his role in the 1989 sequel """". Many also remember him as Lt. Harding Welsh in ""Due South"". Starr was born in Queens, New York, to a retail employee mother and a"
"black hat, albeit briefly. ""Pappy"" features Garner playing Bret and Bart's ""pappy"", Beau Maverick, a previously unseen character. Bret and Bart would frequently announce, ""As my Pappy used to say..."" followed by aphorisms like, ""Work is fine for killing time but it's a shaky way to make a living."" Bret disguises himself as Pappy in the same episode, which features trick photography sequences with Garner playing both roles in the same shot. Kelly also plays a dual role, briefly portraying Beau's brother Bentley (""Uncle Bent"", as Bret calls him). Garner's Beau Maverick is not the same character as the Beau"
"rewritten as a 1958 episode of the television series ""Maverick"", starring James Garner and Roger Moore, and was the only episode of the series in which Garner and Moore appeared together (Moore did not play ""Beau Maverick,"" Bret Maverick's cousin, until after Garner had left the series). Patricia ""Pat"" Crowley portrays the leading lady. The episode was called ""The Rivals"" and the original playwright was given due credit. The play was adapted for Australian television in 1961. The BBC produced a version which was broadcast in 1970 as part of their ""Play of the Month"" series, starring Jeremy Brett as"
"eight different roles between 1957 and 1961 in the ABC/Warner Brothers television series ""Maverick"" opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly or Roger Moore, often as a comical stagecoach driver or deputy. No supporting actor appeared on the series more often. In 1959, Johnson was cast as Sheriff Ed Wilson in the episode ""The Twisted Road"" of the syndicated Rex Allen western series, ""Frontier Doctor"". With a surprise ending, the episode features Robert Vaughn and Virginia Christine as a brother and sister. That same year he played the stagecoach driver first suspected as a fraud in the episode ""The Avengers"" (May 12,"
"from earlier seasons starring the popular Garner during the series' fifth and final season. Colbert, whose only two episodes as Brent Maverick were entitled ""The Forbidden City"" and ""Benefit of the Doubt,"" had never received enough screen time to see if he could have eventually succeeded in bolstering the ratings. Before Roger Moore, who played Bart's cousin Beau Maverick, left ""Maverick"" during the same season in which Colbert appeared, the studio shot numerous publicity photographs of Colbert, Kelly and Moore cavorting in costume together that are readily accessible on Google Images; the rights to many of the pictures are currently"
"as black-clad gunfighter in a 1961 episode, ""Last Stop: Oblivion"", of the ABC/WB western series, ""Maverick"" with Jack Kelly and fellow guest star Buddy Ebsen. Barry's voice in the television westerns sounded much like that of the character actor Dub Taylor. About this time, he also guest starred on two other ABC/WB dramas, ""Bourbon Street Beat"" and ""The Roaring 20s"". He appeared as well in the syndicated crime drama, ""U.S. Marshal"", starring John Bromfield, and the NBC education drama series, ""Mr. Novak"", starring James Franciscus. Barry continued making Westerns as part of the ensemble casts of A.C. Lyles Paramount second"
"""Maverick"") in Cummings' role and Robert Horton (who subsequently played scout Flint McCullough in ""Wagon Train"") performing Reagan's part. The show appeared as one of three rotating series on the earliest William T. Orr production, ""Warner Bros. Presents"". The other two series were ""Casablanca"", another TV version of a renowned movie (featuring Charles McGraw in Humphrey Bogart's role), and ""Cheyenne"", starring Clint Walker, a Western later produced by Roy Huggins that went on to its own time slot for several years until it started rotating with ""Bronco"", another Warner Bros. Western. At the conclusion of each episode of ""Warner Bros."
"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)"
"including the featured nemesis in seven episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, ""Maverick"", starring James Garner, Jack Kelly and Roger Moore, between 1957 and 1962 (the episodes were ""According to Hoyle"" with Garner, ""Rope of Cards"" with Garner, ""Yellow River"" with Kelly, ""Maverick Springs"" with Garner and Kelly, ""Last Wire from Stop Gap"" with Kelly and Moore, ""Maverick at Law"" with Kelly, and ""Poker Face"" with Kelly) In 1958, he appeared in the episode ""Devil to Pay"" of the ABC/WB series, ""Sugarfoot"", starring Will Hutchins in the title role. Avery played Jim Case, the owner of a trading"
"dozens of other television shows and did several crossovers with other western series as Johnny McKay, including ""Maverick"", in the 1961 episode ""Hadley's Hunters,"" featuring Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, along with a host of characters from other Warner Brothers. westerns, including ""Cheyenne"" (Clint Walker), ""Bronco"" (Ty Hardin), and ""Sugarfoot"" (Will Hutchins). In the ""Cheyenne"" episode ""Renegades"" (1958), Brown at twenty-two was cast as 17-year-old Jed Wayne, who enlists in the United States Army after his father is killed in an attack by Comanche renegades. Olive Sturgess played Kathy Donovan, who takes an interest in young Wayne and is the"
"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"
"of $41.8 million over its first two weeks of release. The movie was a box office success as it grossed over $183 million worldwide. 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)."
"... 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"
"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."
"playing Bart and elderly Uncle Bentley Maverick). Bart rescued Bret at the climax of ""Duel at Sundown"", in which Garner first fought guest star Clint Eastwood. Garner had first choice of which part he would play in the two-brother episodes, which delineated the brothers as ""Maverick 1"" and ""Maverick 2"" in the scripts, giving him an enormous advantage. All but one script during the show's first two years were written with Garner in mind regardless of which actor would eventually be cast. Roy Huggins insisted that the writers visualize Garner as Maverick while writing the scripts. Although the ""solo"" episodes"
"""team-up"" episode. Partway through the fourth season Robert Colbert replaced Moore and played a third Maverick brother, Brent. No more than two series leads (of the four total for the run of the series) ever appeared together in the same episode, and most episodes only featured one. All two-Maverick episodes included Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick. For the fifth and final season, the show returned to a ""single Maverick"" format, as it had originally been in the first eight episodes, with all the remaining new episodes starring Kelly as Bart. The new episodes, however, alternated with reruns from earlier seasons"
"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"