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Secret Life of James Garner

The late actor of "Rockford Files" and "Maverick" fame was on the DL.

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by Anonymousreply 42May 21, 2025 11:58 AM

This is one of those AI generated bullshit videos that have invaded YouTube.

by Anonymousreply 1May 20, 2025 2:58 AM

James Scott Bumgarner

by Anonymousreply 2May 20, 2025 2:58 AM

And quite the bum it was.

by Anonymousreply 3May 20, 2025 3:07 AM

That ass prob tempted most of Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 4May 20, 2025 11:34 AM

Back in the day he was about the sexiest man on earth, IMO.

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by Anonymousreply 5May 20, 2025 11:53 AM

I don’t have a problem with this.

by Anonymousreply 6May 20, 2025 12:30 PM

I’ll bet he was the kind of gentleman who came back to bed with a warm, wet cloth to wipe his ejaculate off of you before settling in for a long, affectionate cuddle.

by Anonymousreply 7May 20, 2025 12:32 PM

such a hot guy

by Anonymousreply 8May 20, 2025 12:34 PM

He was my grandmother's favorite, she loved him.

by Anonymousreply 9May 20, 2025 12:52 PM

God that video dragged on and on and on with such little information. So he hung out with Cary Grant, Rock Hudson and Marlon Brando and his wife didn't attend entertainment events or red carpets.

Jeesh - it's possible I guess - but evidence is reed thin.

by Anonymousreply 10May 20, 2025 4:57 PM

I had no idea that he was half(?) Cherokee.

by Anonymousreply 11May 20, 2025 5:01 PM

Half BREED! That’s all he ever heard!

by Anonymousreply 12May 20, 2025 5:02 PM

R11 - DNA tests repeatedly show that native American bloodlines are fiction. I don't know why but both white and black Americans' oral family history are littered with these claims.

For black Americans, it makes a bit more sense as a way to explain an ancestor's straight hair or other facial features - which is most commonly a product of being mixed with white, through rape by white masters or white men.

by Anonymousreply 13May 20, 2025 5:10 PM

The shitty AI video takedown attempt thoughtlessly provided by OP frequently confuses Garner for other actors such as Mel Gibson.

by Anonymousreply 14May 20, 2025 5:48 PM

[quote]DNA tests repeatedly show that native American bloodlines are fiction.

This is true in North America. The English men didn't really mix with the indigenous population like the Spanish men did. Of course some of them did, but it wasn't widespread.

by Anonymousreply 15May 20, 2025 5:49 PM

There are tons of actors who I might think were bi or gay- but James Garner ain't one of them. There is nothing in his past that even hints at anything gay- except he had gay friends. I have straight friends does that make me straight? The need to pull Garner into this bullshit is disgusting. NOT EVERYONE IS GAY- NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU WANT OR NEED TO BELIEVE IT!

by Anonymousreply 16May 20, 2025 5:52 PM

R16 needs to lie down on the fainting couch. I think they dost protest too much.

by Anonymousreply 17May 20, 2025 5:54 PM

I saw "The Thrill of it All" on TV for the first time when I was in my early teens. I nearly came during that scene where he puts on his underpants under a bathrobe.

by Anonymousreply 18May 20, 2025 7:11 PM

I think it's pretty foolhardy to believe that there is little to no Native American DNA in the North American population who are not specifically living in a tribe.

In fact, that's pretty fucking ridiculous in my opinion. Invading men most often would plunder any hole they could (no matter who it belonged to).

If you have some link/evidence to share on that, please do. Frankly, intermingling is the way of the world.

by Anonymousreply 19May 20, 2025 7:26 PM

DNA testing has proven that Native American admixture is not nearly as common in North America as was once thought.

by Anonymousreply 20May 20, 2025 7:35 PM

Yes, not nearly as common, but it still happened.

by Anonymousreply 21May 20, 2025 8:00 PM

R17- First of all I am not some flighty fag. But I am sick of seeing the question on here all the time- " Is such and such gay?". It insults the very state of being gay. I am gay but I don't need anyone to stand beside me, or to be able to say well he was gay too. The numbers don't matter. If guys on the DL would stop crying witch whenever someone makes them hot. It's unbecoming. And it does not to improve our lot in life. What it does prove is that there are still many desperate gay men out there who still haven't gotten over their high school crush,( who they know in their hearts was secretly gay) and so anyone they liked from that time period must be gay. Tell R17 is Bill Clinton gay? Or John Wayne? Or King Charles?

Sorry to rant but I like James Garner as an actor. I don't want or need him to be gay too.

by Anonymousreply 22May 20, 2025 8:11 PM

R21 - and yet no. Native Americans weren't slaves, they weren't owned. They had their own tribes and communities and stayed together.

It's not impossible - but it's extremely rare and not likely James Garner had any NA ancestry at all.

by Anonymousreply 23May 20, 2025 8:18 PM

r23:

[quote] James Garner, an actor with Cherokee ancestry, died Saturday night. He was 86.

[quote] Garner was born in Oklahoma in 1928. His mother, Mildred Meek Bumgarner, was Cherokee, but she died when he was only 4 years old.

[quote] News reports do not say whether Garner or his maternal ancestors were enrolled in the Cherokee Nation or the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. He was proud of his tribal heritage -- he named his company Cherokee Productions in honor of his roots.

[quote] His father, Weldon “Bill” Bumgarner, was of European ancestry, and his mother, Mildred Meek Bumgarner, was half Cherokee. She died when Garner was 4, and he and his brothers were split up and sent to live with relatives until his father eventually remarried.

by Anonymousreply 24May 20, 2025 8:23 PM

Also, I don't think your any kind of expert as you just keep blatting out statements with no real links backing up your claims.

by Anonymousreply 25May 20, 2025 8:24 PM

Oh, dearing myself.

"You're" instead of "your."

by Anonymousreply 26May 20, 2025 8:25 PM

[bold] Youtube is now a septic tank of AI Robo videos...I realized how bad YT has become last weekend, when endless clickbait accounts were discussing Bad Bunnys SNL performance--On FRIDAY-18 hours BEFORE he took the stage... [/bold] .Link to an 11 minute jibber jabber fake rundown of the SNL finale---BEFORE it happened.

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by Anonymousreply 27May 20, 2025 10:22 PM

Youtube is full of AI bullshit now, they really need to clean house.

by Anonymousreply 28May 20, 2025 10:23 PM

The FAKE AI perv stories are all over YT.

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by Anonymousreply 29May 20, 2025 10:49 PM

[bold] "My little bro....." AI STORY...[/bold] ...Where is the line for Youtube? It's really gross.

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by Anonymousreply 30May 20, 2025 10:55 PM

Garner had a nice ass, wish I had a better pic of it.

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by Anonymousreply 31May 20, 2025 11:09 PM

Longtime nanny-granny beard:

Spouse: Lois Josephine Fleischman Clarke ​(m. 1956)

by Anonymousreply 32May 21, 2025 2:26 AM

I always wish I had been old enough to appreciate "The Rocjkford Files" when it aired, because it was such an intelligent series. and he was so terrific in it.

by Anonymousreply 33May 21, 2025 2:32 AM

R16, Why is that? You said like a homophobic frau. ANYBODY CAN BE FUCKING GAY, didja know that?

by Anonymousreply 34May 21, 2025 2:52 AM

Srsly R31. I just went a-googling for some pics of Garner’s backside, but I can’t find anything,

by Anonymousreply 35May 21, 2025 5:47 AM

The only things I associate him with are a Doris Day movie and Polaroid commercials.

I don’t care about his low-watt life.

by Anonymousreply 36May 21, 2025 8:03 AM

He showed his ass in Space Cowboys but he was an old man by then so it was a hollow gesture.

by Anonymousreply 37May 21, 2025 8:05 AM

In case you missed it, this photo of Garner was put up on the recent thread about "What celebrities looked like when they were teens."

Here Garner is on his high school basketball team.

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by Anonymousreply 38May 21, 2025 8:16 AM

He was no zero! How cruel.

by Anonymousreply 39May 21, 2025 8:21 AM

Well he did co-star in The Fan with Lauren Bacall, one of the gayest thrillers ever

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by Anonymousreply 40May 21, 2025 8:45 AM

As a gayling I was practically glued to the TV each week watching The Rockford Files where his standard outfit involved a pair of seventies polyester pants which clung to the curves of his ample rump. He was hawt!

by Anonymousreply 41May 21, 2025 9:38 AM

Those shows (and Kojak, Quincy, etc.) were never glamorous enough for me.

by Anonymousreply 42May 21, 2025 11:58 AM
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