Garner's screen career takes in POW-camp breakouts, tongue-in-cheek westerns and late-life tearjerkers. A few picks drew Oscar attention, while others survive mainly as Sunday-afternoon TV favorites.
1Hour of the GunJohn Sturges's 1967 western that opens with the O.K. Corral gunfight and follows the vendetta that came after, with Garner as Wyatt Earp and Jason Robards as Doc Holliday.1000pts
2The Great EscapeJohn Sturges's 1963 POW-camp epic, with Garner as Flight Lieutenant Hendley, the 'Scrounger', alongside Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough.953pts
3Support Your Local Sheriff!Burt Kennedy's 1969 western spoof, with Garner as a drifter who takes the sheriff's badge in a gold-rush town, co-starring Walter Brennan and Joan Hackett.835pts
4Move Over, DarlingA 1963 comedy co-starring Doris Day as a wife declared dead who returns home on the day Garner's character remarries, remaking My Favorite Wife.734pts
5The Americanization of EmilyA 1964 anti-war satire written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller, with Garner as a cowardly Navy aide opposite Julie Andrews.734pts
6Grand PrixJohn Frankenheimer's 1966 Formula One drama, with Garner as American driver Pete Aron; the film won three Academy Awards for its editing and sound.659pts
736 HoursA 1965 World War II thriller in which Garner's US intelligence officer Jefferson Pike is drugged by German intelligence and convinced the war is over, to extract D-Day secrets.659pts
8My Fellow AmericansA 1996 comedy with Garner and Jack Lemmon as feuding former US presidents on the run after uncovering a scandal.659pts
9Duel at DiabloRalph Nelson's 1966 western, with Garner as an army scout hunting his wife's killer, co-starring Sidney Poitier and Bibi Andersson.571pts
10SunsetBlake Edwards's 1988 Hollywood murder mystery, with Garner playing Wyatt Earp a second time opposite Bruce Willis as cowboy star Tom Mix.571pts
11MarloweA 1969 neo-noir adapted from Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, with Garner as private eye Philip Marlowe and an early screen fight scene by Bruce Lee.571pts
12The Children's HourWilliam Wyler's 1961 film of Lillian Hellman's play, with Garner as Dr. Joe Cardin, fiancé to Audrey Hepburn's teacher, alongside Shirley MacLaine.467pts
13Victor/VictoriaBlake Edwards's 1982 musical comedy set in 1930s Paris, with Garner as Chicago nightclub owner King Marchand falling for Julie Andrews's cross-dressing singer.467pts
14Space CowboysClint Eastwood's 2000 adventure about four ageing test pilots sent into orbit, with Garner as the preacher 'Tank' Sullivan beside Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland.467pts
15The Thrill of It AllNorman Jewison's 1963 comedy written by Carl Reiner, with Garner as an obstetrician whose wife, played by Doris Day, becomes a TV commercial star.467pts
16SayonaraJoshua Logan's 1957 drama of US servicemen in Japan, led by Marlon Brando, with Garner in an early supporting role as Captain Mike Bailey; it won four Oscars.343pts
17Murphy's RomanceMartin Ritt's 1985 small-town romance with Sally Field, which earned Garner his only Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor.343pts
18Support Your Local GunfighterA 1971 comic western, again directed by Burt Kennedy, in which Garner's con man Latigo Smith is mistaken for a notorious gunslinger.343pts
19MaverickRichard Donner's 1994 big-screen western starring Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick, with Garner, the original TV Maverick, as Marshal Zane Cooper.343pts
20Skin GameA 1971 comedy western set before the Civil War, with Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. as con men who run a repeated slave-sale swindle.0pts
21The NotebookNick Cassavetes's 2004 adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel, with Garner as the elderly Noah reading a love story to Gena Rowlands.0pts
22Fire in the SkyA 1993 drama based on Travis Walton's alleged 1975 alien abduction in Arizona, with Garner as the state investigator Lt. Frank Watters.0pts
