James Garner played a leading role in a movie.
Grand Prix is a 1966 American drama film about motorsports featuring an international ensemble cast . James Garner . He starred in several television series over more than five decades , including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western comedy 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 ) with Clint Eastwood , and The Notebook ( 2004 ) . Space Cowboys is a 2000 American space drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood . The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American black-and-white romantic dark comedy-drama war film , produced by Martin Ransohoff , directed by Arthur Hiller , that stars James Garner , Julie Andrews , Melvyn Douglas , and James Coburn . The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II , starring Steve McQueen , James Garner , and Richard Attenborough , filmed in Panavision . The Notebook is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks . Victor/Victoria is a 1982 British-American musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Julie Andrews , James Garner , Robert Preston , Lesley Ann Warren , Alex Karras , and John Rhys-Davies .