Monday, August 28, 2023

James Garner looks young here. Dude lived to be 86.

 


22 comments:

  1. He existed a lot longer than Steve McQueen.

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  2. All that clean living.

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  3. Just watched that movie (AGAIN!!!!)

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  4. Is this taken on the set of "The Great Escape"? Great movie.

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  5. He was a Purple Heart recipient from Korea, too.

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    1. yeah, he got hit in his butt. got to remember to keep your ass down.

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    2. Especially when it's USAF providing the CAS:
      Garner enlisted in the California Army National Guard, serving his first 7 months in California. Then, during the Korean War, he went to Korea for 14 months as a rifleman in the 5th Regimental Combat Team, then part of the 24th Infantry Division. He was wounded twice: first in the face and hand by shrapnel from a mortar round, and second in the buttocks from friendly fire from U.S. fighter jets as he dove into a foxhole. ~ Wikipedia

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  6. While filming "The Great Escape"?

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  7. That's an old VW bus in the background.

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  8. With Great Escape director John Sturges. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836328/mediaviewer/rm3228932096/

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  9. He was 34 in this photo.

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  10. Is it just me or are Steve n James listenin to slingblade extoll the benefits of 'em french-fried 'taters?...

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  11. James is in many of my favorite movies

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  12. Looks like Hunter Thompson on the right.

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  13. He was the spokeman for "Beef" until he had a massive heart attack...then they fired him.

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  14. Look for James' autobiography at the library...very good. Steve and James were next door neighbors but James didnt care for him because Steve was conservative. (!!!)

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    1. After getting shot at by Norks and communist Chinese.
      I'd cut the man some slack there.

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    2. Getting shot by communists certainly should have given him the sense not to campaign against the RKBA.

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  16. would like to be able to sit a drink a few beers with him.

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  17. James Woods and James Garner were great friends. Even after Woods became a conservative.

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