#Cheyenne 1955

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Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie Cheyenne (1955 – 1962)

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From the Golden Age of Television

Season 1 Episode 6

Brave Eagle - Chief of the Cheyenne - Moonfire - CBS - November 2, 1955

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Mona Fisher

Produced by Jack C. Lacey

Directed by Paul Landres

Stars:

Keith Larsen as Brave Eagle

Bert Wheeler as Smokey Joe

Kim Winona as Morning Star

Anthony Numkena as Keena

Cynthia Chenault  as Penny Pattifore (as Cindy Robbins)

Pierre Watkin as Colonel Matt Matthews

Dean Cromer

Sun Bear

Bill Catching

Steve Raines

Wally West

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Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager. After George Armstrong Custer's defeat, Wasú Máza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

Wasú Máza with his wife and granddaughter, Celane

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Desde hace tiempo he querido hacer esto ya que se me hace curioso como el nombre ha tenido historia y confusiones graciosas del QSMP .

1° Fue protagonista de una serie estadunidense entre 1955 y 1963 esta fue vista por la mama de Chayanne cuando vivia en ese país poniéndole este apodo.

2°Cantante puertorriqueño , papá de toda latinoamerica, cantante, compositor, bailarin y actor en unas peliculas, su nombre real Elmer Figueroa Arce.

3°Hijo de Philza y Missa, hermano mayor de todos los huevos, guerrero, cocinero, protector , su nombre fue puesto por Missa por el cantante y también porque esta en la lista de nombres prohibidos en México.

4°Hay muchas mujeres llamadas asi tanto en lugares de habla inglesa como en otras partes, siendo que los Brasileños pensaron que era niña cuando conocieron a Chayanne.(El primero en confundirlo fue otra persona actualmente innombrable diciendole a Tallulah que era su hermana)

5° Es un pueblo originario de los Estados Unidos provinientes de Minnesota Central emigrando a Colinas Negras de Dakota del Sur su nombre significa "pequeño Sahíya" (la S lleva carón pero mi teclado no me deja ponerlo) ó hablante sin coherencia, se les conoce como "Los indios de las llanuras" eran pacíficos hasta la llegada de los colonizadores.

6° Los adultos que crecimos entre los noventas y 2000 así como los jóvenes, que veiamos television, recordamos un famoso comercial de la Cheyenne de la marca Chevrolet, esto me recuerdan cuando escriben el nombre de Chayanne con "e" y me da risa, su famosa frase era "y ¿la cheyenne apa? Esto haciendo referencia que su papá le dejaria todo el terreno menos su camioneta.

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Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager. After George Armstrong Custer's defeat, Wasú Máza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Wasú Máza with his wife and granddaughter, Celane

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Before dying (in 1871) Tu-eka-kas, the father of Chief Joseph des Nez-Percés, recalls to his son that he should not sell his father's bones. Chief Joseph describes his death. "MY FATHER DID CALL ME. I SAW HE WAS GOING TO DIE. I TAKEN HIS hand in mine. He said, “My son, my body will return to my mother earth, and my spirit will soon see the Chief Great Spirit. When I'm gone, think about your country. You are the leader of this people. They expect you to guide them. Always remember that your father never sold his country. You will cover your ears when you are asked to sign a treaty selling your land. A few more years and the white man will be there. They have their eyes on this country. Never forget, son, my dying words. This earth contains the body of your father. Never sell the bones of your father and mother. "I squeezed my father's hands and told him that I will protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and left for Spirit Land. I buried him in this beautiful valley where the water winds. I love this land more than the rest of the world. A man who wouldn't love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal." 

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Clint Walker🐴🐴🐴 (1927-2018)

—set of TV Western, Cheyenne (1955-1963)

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Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager. After George Armstrong Custer's defeat, Wasú Máza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ... Wasú Máza with his wife and granddaughter, Celane

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Clinton Walker is best known for playing Cheyenne Bodie for 7 seasons (1955 to 1962). He was a commanding presence at 6’6”.

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The amount of serotonin I would have if there was an accessible way to watch Cheyenne (1955). Like I would be happy everyday.

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Character Actor

Gerald Mohr (June 11, 1914 – November 9, 1968)  Radio, film, and television character actor and frequent leading man, who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films, and over 100 television shows.

From the 1950s on, he appeared as a guest star in more than 100 television series, including the Westerns The Californians, Maverick, Johnny Ringo, The Alaskans, Lawman, Cheyenne (as Pat Keogh in episode "Rendezvous at Red Rock"/as Elmer Bostrum in episode "Incident at Dawson Flats"), Bronco, Overland Trail (as James Addison Reavis, "the Baron of Arizona", in the episode "The Baron Comes Back"), Sugarfoot, Bonanza (as Phil Reed in the episode "The Abduction", as Collins in the episode "Found Child", as Cato Troxell in the episode "A Girl Named George"), The Rifleman, Wanted: Dead or Alive (episode "Till Death do us Part"), Death Valley Days (as Andrés Pico in "The Firebrand"), and Rawhide. In 1949, he was co-announcer, along with Fred Foy, and narrator of 16 of the shows of the first season of The Lone Ranger, speaking the well-known introduction as well as story details. The narration was dropped after sixteen episodes.

Mohr guest-starred seven times in the 1957–62 television series Maverick, twice playing Western gambler Doc Holliday in "The Quick and the Dead" and briefly in the conclusion of "Seed of Deception", a role he reprised again in "Doc Holliday in Durango", a 1958 episode of Tombstone Territory. In one of the other Maverick episodes, he portrayed Steve Corbett, a character based on Bogart's in Casablanca. That episode, "Escape to Tampico," used the set from the original film, this time as a Mexican saloon where Bret Maverick (James Garner) arrives to hunt down Mohr's character for an earlier murder.

Mohr also guest-starred on Crossroads, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Harrigan and Son, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, It's Always Jan, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Lost in Space, Ripcord and many other television series of the era, especially those being produced by Warner Bros. Studios and Dick Powell's Four Star Productions. He sang in the 1956 Cheyenne episode "Rendezvous at Red Rock". He also essayed Captain Vadim, an Iron Curtain submarine commander, in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "The Lost Bomb". In the series' fourth and final season (1968-69), Mohr guest-starred in the episode "Flight From San Miguel" on The Big Valley. This episode was broadcast posthumously in April 1969.

Mohr made guest appearances on such network television comedy shows as The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1951), How to Marry a Millionaire (1958), The Jack Benny Program (1961 & 1962), The Smothers Brothers Show (1965) and The Lucy Show (1968). He had the recurring role of newsman Brad Jackson in My Friend Irma  (1952). He played "Ricky's friend", psychiatrist "Dr. Henry Molin" (real life name of the assistant film editor on the show), in the February 2, 1953 episode of I Love Lucy, "The Inferiority Complex". His repeated line was, "Treatment, Ricky. Treatment".

In 1954–1955, he starred as Christopher Storm in 41 episodes of the third season of Foreign Intrigue, produced in Stockholm for American distribution. During several episodes of Foreign Intrigue, but most noticeably in "The Confidence Game" and "The Playful Prince", he can be heard playing on the piano his own musical composition, "The Frontier Theme", so called because Christopher Storm was the owner of the Hotel Frontier in Vienna. Foreign Intrigue was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1954 under the category "Best Mystery, Action or Adventure Program" and again in 1955 under the category "Best Mystery or Intrigue Series".

Mohr made four guest appearances on Perry Mason (1961–66). In his first appearance, he played Joe Medici in "The Case of the Unwelcome Bride". In 1963, he played murder victim Austin Lloyd in "The Case of the Elusive Element". In 1964, he played the murderer, Alan Durfee, in "The Case of a Place Called Midnight". In 1966, he played agent Andy Rubin in the series' final episode, "The Case of the Final Fadeout".

He continued to market his powerful voice, playing Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) in the Fantastic Four cartoon series during 1967 and Green Lantern in the 1968 animated series Aquaman.  (Wikipedia)

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Norman Walker in publicity photo for Cheyenne (1955-1963).

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cowboys in pink!

study of this pic that got way out of hand lol. enjoy

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Cheyenne 🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴

TV western series (1955-1963)

Starring: Clint Walker 🟥🟥🟥🟥

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hi pals! do you pretty please have any recs for middle eastern 30+ female faceclaims?

People with resources:

Dana International (1972) Yemenite and Russian Jewish - trans. 

Nurgül Yeşilçay (1976) Turkish.

Canan Ergüder (1977) Turkish.

Michelle Buteau (1977) Haitian, Lebanese / Jamaican, French.

Sarah Shahi (1980) 75% Iranian 25% Spanish.

Nur Fettahoğlu (1980) Turkish.

Gökçe Bahadır (1981)Turkish.

Nasim Pedrad (1981) Iranian.

Mais Hamdan (1982) Jordanian, Palestinian, Lebanese.

Nancy Ajram (1983) Lebanese and Palestinian.

Tuba Büyüküstün (1982) Turkish.

Edy Ganem (1983) Lebanese and Mexican.

Golshifteh Farahani (1983) Iranian.

Buthaina Al Raisi (1983) Omani.

Saadet Aksoy (1983) Turkish.

Gökçe Eyüboğlu (1983) Turkish.

Tuğçe Kumral (1983) Turkish.

Tala Ashe (1984) Iranian.

Nicole Chamoun (1984) Lebanese.

Aslı Enver (1984) Turkish.

Beren Saat (1984) Turkish.

Funda Eryiğit (1984) Turkish.

Melike İpek Yalova (1984) Turkish.

Celeste Thorson (1984) Mexican of Mescalero Apache and Spanish descent, Lebanese, Syrian, Korean, Scottish, Irish, English.

Sheila Vand (1985) Iranian.

Elçin Sangu (1985) Turkish.

Denise Bidot (1986) Kuwaiti / Puerto Rican.

Fahriye Evcen (1986) Turkish. 

Gülcan Arslan (1986) Turkish.

Juliet Ibrahim (1986) Ghanaian, Liberian, and Lebanese.

May Calamawy (1986) Bahraini [Egyptian / Palestinian, Jordanian].

Rana Roy (1986) Egyptian, Indian, Nubian, Spanish.

Dalal AlDoub (1986) Kuwaiti.

Dilara Aksüyek (1987) Turkish.

Gonca Sarıyıldız (1987) Turkish.

Reem Abdullah (1987) Saudi Arabian.

Nilperi Şahinkaya (1988) Turkish.

Alanna Masterson (1988) Lebanese / Irish.

Hazal Filiz Küçükköse (1988) Turkish.

Shaila Sabt (1988) Bahraini and Indian.

Nura / Nura Habib Omer (1988) Saudi Arabinan / Eritrean - is bisexual.

Yasmine Al-Bustami (1988) Jordanian, Palestinian, Filipino.

Genevieve Kang (1989) Korean, Scottish Irish, Lebanese, Apache, and Spanish.

Burcu Özberk (1989) Turkish. 

Farah Zeynep Abdullah (1989) Turkish.

Leyla Lydia Tuğutlu (1989) Turkish.

Selin Şekerci (1989) Turkish.

Yasmien Kurdi (1989) Chinese, Kurdish, Lebanese, and Filipino.

Burcu Biricik (1989) Turkish.

Rotana Tarabzouni (1990) Saudi Arabian.

Aiysha Hart (1990) English and Saudi Arabian.

Yağmur Tanrısevsin (1990) Turkish.

Eda Ece (1990) Turkish.

Hazal Kaya (1990) Turkish.

Sofiya Cheyenne (1991) Taino, Dominican, Syrian, and Italian - has Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Congenita.

Claudia Doumit (1992) Lebanese and Italian.

Rima Zeidan (1992) Lebanese and Taiwanese.

Dareen Barbar (?) Lebanese and Emirati - leg amputee. 

No resources at time of posting, random suggestions please let me know if you want more specific suggestions! 

Teresita Reyes (1950) Palestinian / Unspecified.

Bülent Ersoy (1952) Turkish - trans. 

Kuh Ledesma (1955) Lebanese, Filipino.

Bita Farahi (1958) Iranian.

Salwa Nakkara (1959) Palestinian.

Catherine Keener (1959) Lebanese / English, Scottish, German.

Hiam Abbass (1960) Palestinian Arab.

Rose Abdoo (1962) Lebanese / Dominican.

Doris Younane (1963) Lebanese.

Nadia Dajani (1965) Palestinian Arab / Irish, English.

Agot Isidro (1966) Palestinian / Filipino [Cebuano, Tagalog].

Darina Al Joundi (1968) Lebanese / Syrian.

Dawn Zulueta (1969) 1/4 Palestinian, 3/4 Filipino.

Ward El Khal (1971) Lebanese.

Nisreen Faour (1972) Palestinian.

Leila Hatami (1972) Iranian.

Traci Dinwiddie (1973) Syrian / Cherokee.

Ana María Orozco (1973) Colombian [Lebanese, possibly other].

Shannon Elizabeth (1973) Lebanese, Syrian / English, Irish, German.

Nadine Labaki (1975) Lebanese.

Kadia Saraf (1976) Yemeni Jewish / Swiss.

Saba Mubarak (1976) Palestinian / Jordanian.

Nada Abou Farhat (1976) Lebanese.

Najwa Nimri (1976) Jordanian / Navarrese.

Ayta Sözeri (1976) Turkish and Circassian - trans.

Soulafa Maamar (1976) Syrian.

Dana Hamdan (1979) Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese.

Maguy Bou Ghosn (1979) Lebanese.

Mozhan Marno (1980) Iranian.

Behnoosh Tabatabaei (1981) Iranian.

Atiqah Hasiholan (1982) Hadhrami Yemeni, Indonesian / Batak Indonesian.

Nadia Buari (1982) Lebanese / Ghanaian.

Mercedes Masohn (1982) Iranian.

Menna Shalabi (1982) Egyptian.

Leila Otadi (1983) Iranian.

Tannaz Tabatabaei (1983) Iranian. 

Mai Selim (1983) Palestinian / Jordanian, Lebanese.

Taraneh Alidoosti (1984) Iranian.

Kinda Hanna (1984) Syrian.

Yasmin Raeis (1985) Palestinian / Egyptian.

Hana Shiha (1985) Lebanese / Egyptian.

Sonja Kinski (1986) Egyptian / Polish, German.

Rita Hayek (1987) Lebanese.

Amal Mohammed (1987) Emirati.

Bárbara de Regil (1987) Mexican [Lebanese, possibly other].

Hiba Tawaji (1987) Palestinian / Lebanese.

Shaden Kanboura (1988) Palestinian.

Pamela El Kik (1988) Lebanese.

Sumaya Rida (1988) Saudi Arabian.

Dina Shihabi (1989) Palestinian Arab, Saudi Arabian / Haitian, Norwegian, German.

Natasha Choufani (1989) Lebanese.

Samar Qupty (1989) Palestinian.

Rakeen Saad (1989) Palestinian.

Mouna Hawa (1989) Palestinian.

Laëtitia Eïdo (1990) Lebanese / French.

Lauren Abedini ‍(1990) Iranian.

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JANE WYMAN.

Filmography

1932 The Kid from Spain

1933 Elmer, the Great

1933 Gold Diggers of 1933

1934 All the King's Horses

1934 College Rhythm

1935 Broadway Hostess

1935 Rumba

1935 George White's

1935 Stolen Harmony

1936 King of Burlesque

1936 Freshman Love

1936 Anything Goes

1936 Bengal Tiger

1936 My Man Godfrey

1936 Stage Struck

1936 Cain and Mabel

1936 Here Comes Carter

1936 The Sunday Round-Up

1936 Polo Joe

1936 Gold Diggers of 1937

1937 Smart Blonde

1937 Ready, Willing, and Able Dot

1937 The King and the Chorus

1937 Slim Stumpy Girl

1937 Little Pioneer

1937 The Singing

1937 Public Wedding

1937 Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

1937 Over the Goal Co-Ed

1938 The Spy Ring

1938 He Couldn't Say No

1938 Fools for Scandal

1938 Wide Open Faces

1938 The Crowd Roars

1938 Brother Rat

1939 Tail Spin

1939 The Kid from Kokomo

1939 Torchy Blane ... Playing with

1939 Kid Nightingale

1939 Private Detective

1940 Brother Rat and a Baby

1940 An Angel from Texas

1940 Flight Angels

1940 Gambling on the High Seas

1940 My Love Came Back

1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again

1941 Honeymoon for Three

1941 Bad Men of Missouri

1941 The Body Disappears

1941 You're in the Army Now

1942 Larceny, Inc.

1942 My Favorite Spy

1942 Footlight Serenade

1943 Princess O'Rourke

1944 Make Your Own Bed

1944 The Doughgirls

1944 Crime by Night

1945 The Lost Weekend

1946 One More Tomorrow

1946 Night and Day Gracie

1946 The Yearling

1947 Cheyenne

1947 Magic Town

1948 Johnny Belinda

1949 A Kiss in the Dark

1949 The Lady Takes a Sailor

1950 Stage Fright

1950 The Glass Menagerie

1951 Three Guys Named Mike

1951 Here Comes the Groom

1951 The Blue Veil

1952 The Story of Will Rogers

1952 Just for You

1953 Three Lives

1953 Let's Do It Again

1953 So Big

1954 Magnificent Obsession

1955 All That Heaven Allows

1955 Lucy Gallant

1956 Miracle in the Rain

1959 Holiday for Lovers

1960 Pollyanna Polly Harrington

1962 Bon Voyage!

1969 How to Commit Marriage.

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wyman

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Today we remember the passing of James Garner who Died: July 19, 2014  in Los Angeles, California

Garner was born James Scott Bumgarner on April 7, 1928 in Denver, Oklahoma (now a part of Norman, Oklahoma). His parents were Weldon Warren Bumgarner, a widower, and Mildred Scott (Meek), who died five years after his birth. His older brothers were Jack Garner (1926–2011) and Charles Bumgarner (1924-1984), a school administrator. His family was Methodist. After their mother's death, Garner and his brothers were sent to live with relatives. Garner was reunited with his family in 1934, when Weldon remarried.

Garner's father remarried several times. Garner came to hate one of his stepmothers, Wilma, who beat all three boys (especially him). He said that his stepmother also punished him by forcing him to wear a dress in public. When he was 14 years old, he fought with her, knocking her down and choking her to keep her from killing him in retaliation. She left the family and never returned. His brother Jack later commented, "She was a damn no-good woman". Garner's last stepmother was Grace, whom he said he loved and called "Mama Grace", and felt that she was more of a mother to him than anyone else had been.

After the war, Garner joined his father in Los Angeles and enrolled at Hollywood High School, where he was voted the most popular student. A high school gym teacher recommended him for a job modeling Jantzen bathing suits. It paid well ($25 an hour), but in his first interview for the Archives of American Television, he said he hated modeling; he soon quit and returned to Norman. He played football and basketball at Norman High School, and competed on the track and golf teams. However, he dropped out in his senior year. In a 1976 Good Housekeeping magazine interview, he admitted, "I was a terrible student and I never actually graduated from high school, but I got my diploma in the Army."

Shortly after his father's marriage to Wilma broke up, his father moved to Los Angeles, leaving Garner and his brothers in Norman. After working at several jobs he disliked, Garner worked as a merchant mariner in the United States Merchant Marine at age 16 near the end of World War II. He liked the work and his shipmates, but he suffered from chronic seasickness.

Garner enlisted in the California Army National Guard, serving his first 7 months in California. He then went to Korea for 14 months, as a rifleman in the 5th Regimental Combat Team during the Korean War, then part of the 24th Infantry Division. He was wounded twice, first in the face and hand by shrapnel from a mortar round, and the second time in the buttocks from friendly fire from U.S. fighter jets as he dived into a foxhole. Garner received the Purple Heart in Korea for the first wound. He qualified for a second Purple Heart (eligibility requirement: "As the result of friendly fire while actively engaging the enemy"), but he did not actually receive it until 1983, 32 years after the event.

In 1954, Paul Gregory, a friend whom Garner had met while attending Hollywood High School, persuaded Garner to take a nonspeaking role in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, where he was able to study Henry Fonda night after night. During the week of Garner's death, TCM broadcast most of his movies, introduced by Robert Osborne, who said that Fonda's gentle, sincere persona rubbed off on Garner, greatly to Garner's benefit.

Garner subsequently moved to television commercials and eventually to television roles. In 1955, Garner was considered for the lead role in the Western series Cheyenne, but that role went to Clint Walker because the casting director could not reach Garner in time (according to Garner's autobiography). Garner wound up playing an Army officer in the 1955 Cheyenne pilot titled "Mountain Fortress." His first film appearances were in The Girl He Left Behind and Toward the Unknown in 1956.

In 1957, he had a supporting role in the TV anthology series episode on Conflict entitled "Man from 1997," portraying Maureen (Gloria Talbott)'s brother "Red"; the show stars Jacques Sernas as Johnny Vlakos and Charlie Ruggles as elderly Mr. Boyne, a librarian from 1997, and involved a 1997 Almanac that was mistakenly left in the past by Boyne and found by Johnny in a bookstore. The series' producer Roy Huggins noted in his Archive of American Television interview that he subsequently cast Garner as the lead in Maverick due to his comedic facial expressions while playing scenes in "Man from 1997" that were not originally written to be comical. He changed his last name from Bumgarner to Garner after the studio had credited him as "James Garner" without permission. He then legally changed it upon the birth of his first child, when he decided she had too many names.

Nominated for 15 Emmy Awards during his television career, Garner received the award in 1977 as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (The Rockford Files) and in 1987 as executive producer of Promise. For his contribution to the film and television industry, Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 1990, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame that same year. In February 2005, he received the Screen Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role that year, for The Notebook. When Morgan Freeman won that prize for his work in Million Dollar Baby, Freeman led the audience in a sing-along of the original Maverick theme song, written by David Buttolph and Paul Francis Webster.

Garner was a strong Democratic Party supporter. From 1982, Garner gave at least $29,000 to Federal campaigns, of which over $24,000 was to Democratic Party candidates, including Dennis Kucinich (for Congress in 2002), Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, and various Democratic committees and groups.

On August 28, 1963, Garner was one of several celebrities to join Martin Luther King Jr. in the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". In his autobiography, Garner recalled sitting in the third row listening to King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

For his role in the 1985 CBS miniseries Space, the character's party affiliation was changed from Republican as in the book to reflect Garner's personal views. Garner said, "My wife would leave me if I played a Republican."

There was an effort by California Democratic party leaders, led by state Senator Herschel Rosenthal, to persuade Garner to seek the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in the 1990 election. However, future United States Senator and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein received the nomination instead, losing to Republican Pete Wilson in the election

Garner was married to Lois Josephine Fleischman Clarke, whom he met at a party in 1956. They married 14 days later on August 17, 1956. "We went to dinner every night for 14 nights. I was just absolutely nuts about her. I spent $77 on our honeymoon, and it about broke me." According to Garner, "Marriage is like the Army; everyone complains, but you'd be surprised at the large number of people who re-enlist." His wife was Jewish.

When Garner and Clarke married, her daughter Kim from a previous marriage was seven years old and recovering from polio. Garner had one daughter with Lois: Greta "Gigi" Garner. In an interview in Good Housekeeping with Garner, his wife, and two daughters, conducted at their home, and published in March 1976, Gigi's age was given as 18 and Kim's as 27.

In 1970, Garner and his wife briefly lived separately for three months. In late 1979, Garner again separated from his wife (around the time The Rockford Files stopped filming), splitting his time between living in Canada and "a rented house in the Valley". The two resumed living together in September 1981, and remained married for the rest of his life. Garner said that the separations were not caused by marital problems, instead stating that he simply needed to spend time alone in order to recover from the stress of acting. Garner died less than a month before their 58th wedding anniversary.

Garner's knees became a chronic problem during the filming of The Rockford Files in the 1970s, with "six or seven knee operations during that time". In 2000, he underwent knee replacement surgery for both of them.

On April 22, 1988, Garner had quintuple bypass heart surgery. Though he recovered rapidly, he was advised to stop smoking. Garner quit smoking 17 years later.

Garner underwent surgery on May 11, 2008, following a severe stroke he had suffered two days earlier. His prognosis was reported to be "very positive". Garner was a private and introverted man, according to family and friends, On July 19, 2014, police and rescue personnel were summoned to Garner's Los Angeles-area home, where they found the actor dead at the age of 86. He had suffered a "massive" heart attack caused by coronary artery disease. He had been in poor health since his stroke in 2008.

Longtime friends Tom Selleck (who worked with Garner on The Rockford Files), Sally Field (who worked with Garner in Murphy's Romance) and Clint Eastwood (who guest-starred with Garner on Maverick and starred in Space Cowboys) reflected on his death. Selleck said, "Jim was a mentor to me and a friend, and I will miss him." Field said, "My heart just broke. There 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."