James Garner wrote about more than 50 films .
He wrote several television films over more than five decades the total being more than 50 , including western comedy series Maverick and Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files , 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 .
James Garner