James Garner reprises his Emmy-winning 1970s series role...

June 01, 1997|By Jay Bobbin, Tribune Media Services.

James Garner reprises his Emmy-winning 1970s series role as the private detective in "The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise," a 1995 TV-movie sequel that CBS will repeat Wednesday. Here's a quiz on some of the actor's many other credits:


1) Who was Garner's leading lady in both "The Thrill of It All" (1963) and "Move Over, Darling" (1964)?

2) In the current Broadway staging of a 1982 film, Michael Nouri has played the role that Garner had in the movie. What is the title of both projects?

3) An Emmy-winning 1993 HBO movie, based on a non-fiction best-seller about the takeover of the RJR Nabisco conglomerate, featured Garner as the forner chief of that firm. What was the picture's name?

4) Garner played a different character in the 1994 movie version of his classic TV western "Maverick." Who had the title role?

5) Which other mini-series was 1995's "Streets of Laredo" which featured Garner as former Texas Ranger Woodrow Call a sequel to?

6) In last year's movie "My Fellow Americans," who played the other former President of the United States with whom Garner went on the run?


1) Doris Day.

2) "Victor/Victoria."

3) "Barbarians at the Gate."

4) Mel Gibson.

5) "Lonesome Dove."

6) Jack Lemmon.