Question: Who was the director of the 1969 neo-noir film starring the actor who played Bret Maverick in the 1950s western comedy series "Maverick" ?

Context articles: Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
Duel at Sundown (Maverick)
James Garner
Young Maverick
Marlowe (film)
Bret Maverick: Faith, Hope and Clarity
Jack Kelly (actor)
Maverick (film)
Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace
James Garner filmography

"Shady Deal at Sunny Acres", starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, remains one of the most famous and widely discussed episodes of the Western comedy television series "Maverick".
 Written by series creator Roy Huggins (teleplay) and Douglas Heyes (story) and directed by Leslie H. Martinson, this 1958 second season episode depicts gambler Bret Maverick (James Garner) being swindled by a crooked banker (John Dehner) after depositing the proceeds from a late-night poker game.
 He then surreptitiously recruits his brother Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) and a host of other acquaintances to mount an elaborate sting operation to recover the money.
"Duel at Sundown" is a 1959 episode of the Western comedy television series "Maverick" starring 31-year-old James Garner and 29-year-old Clint Eastwood.
 A mean killer (Eastwood) becomes jealous when Bret Maverick (Garner) begins spending time with his girlfriend (Abby Dalton), the daughter of Bret's old friend (Edgar Buchanan), who desperately wants Bret to marry her before Eastwood's evil character does so.
James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist.
 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).
Young Maverick is a 1979 television series.
 The series was a sequel of the 1957 series "Maverick", which had starred James Garner as roving gambler Bret Maverick.
 Charles Frank played Ben Maverick, the son of Bret's first cousin Beau Maverick, making him Bret's first cousin once removed.
 Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard played his girlfriend Nell, while John Dehner (who appeared in "Maverick"'s "Shady Deal At Sunny Acres") appeared as a frontier marshal who had arrested Ben's father Beau decades before.
 The series was cancelled by CBS after six hour-long episodes had been shown, leaving two which were never aired on the network.
 All eight episodes were screened later that year on BBC1 in the UK.
Marlowe is a 1969 neo-noir film starring James Garner as Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe.
 Directed by Paul Bogart, the film was written by Stirling Silliphant based on Chandler's 1949 novel "The Little Sister".
Bret Maverick: Faith, Hope, and Clarity starring James Garner is a two-part episode of the 1981-82 television series "Bret Maverick" edited together and released to local television stations as a TV-movie.
 The show involves a religious cult that swindles the townspeople out of a tract of land and Maverick winds up straightening everything out.
 The episodes were directed by Leo Penn (father of Sean Penn) and the film is sometimes entitled simply Bret Maverick.
 The same thing was done with the two-hour series premiere, slightly condensed and marketed to television stations as "".
 The "Bret Maverick" television series was a sequel to the 1957 series "Maverick", created by Roy Huggins, in which Garner had played the same character two decades earlier.
John Augustus "Jack" Kelly Jr. (September 16, 1927 – November 7, 1992) simply known as Jack Kelly, was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the television series "Maverick", which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962.
 Kelly shared the series, rotating as the lead from week to week, first with James Garner as Bret Maverick (1957–1960) then with Roger Moore as Beau Maverick (1960–1961) and Robert Colbert as Brent Maverick (1961, for two episodes), before becoming the only Maverick (alternating with repeats from the Garner era) in the fifth season.
Maverick is a 1994 American Western comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by William Goldman, based on the 1950s television series of the same name created by Roy Huggins.
 The film stars Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick, a card player and con artist collecting money to enter a high-stakes poker game.
 He is joined in his adventure by Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster), another con artist, and lawman Marshall Zane Cooper (James Garner).
 The supporting cast features Graham Greene, James Coburn, Alfred Molina and a large number of cameo appearances by Western film actors, country music stars and other actors.
Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series "Bret Maverick", trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations.
 The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series "Maverick", catching up with professional poker-player Bret Maverick (James Garner).
 The film, written by Gordon T. Dawson and directed by Stuart Margolin, occasionally appears under the simpler title Bret Maverick.
The following is the filmography for American actor James Garner.
 Garner was known for prominent roles in films such as "Sayonara" (1957) with Marlon Brando, "Cash McCall" (1960) with Natalie Wood, "The Great Escape" (1963) with Steve McQueen, "The Thrill of It All" (1963) with Doris Day, "Move Over, Darling" (1963) with Doris Day, "The Wheeler Dealers" (1963) with Lee Remick, Paddy Chayevsky's "The Americanization of Emily" (1964) with Julie Andrews, "Hour of the Gun" (1967), "Marlowe" (1969) with Bruce Lee, "Support Your Local Sheriff!
" (1969) with Walter Brennan, "Murphy's Romance" (1985) with Sally Field, "Sunset" (1988) with Bruce Willis, "Maverick" (1994) with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" (2002), and "The Notebook" (2004) with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.
 His television series credits include portraying Bret Maverick in "Maverick" (1957–1962) and "Bret Maverick" (1981–1982), Jim Rockford in "The Rockford Files" (1974–1980), and Jim Egan in "8 Simple Rules" (2003–2005).