Maverick (Main Character)
Played by: James Garner
1959 Primetime Emmy Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series – Nominee
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series – Nominee
Season 1
- Uses the alias Bret Martin (The Quick and the Dead)
- Was a galvanised Yankee (The Savage Hills)
- Comes from Texas (Trail West to Fury)
- Joined the Union Army as an Indian fighter for two years to keep from rotting in a Yankee Prison at the end of the Civil War (Trail West to Fury)
Season 2
- Gravestone: Born April 7, 1847 ~ Hanged Sept. 21, 1876 which makes him 29 years old (The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick)
- Uses the alias Brad Richards (The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick)
- Promised Pappy that he would get married at 38. He will look around for a wife and raise 12 Mavericks (Duel at Sundown)
- Important rule to himself “To be cowardly at all costs.” (The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill)
Season 3
- Left Texas eight years ago (Pappy)
- Impersonates his father to prevent his marriage to much younger woman (Pappy)
- Goes to Guatemala City in Guatemala (Guatemala City)
- Birthday: 11 May (The Misfortune Teller)
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