Editing James Garner (section)

===1990s===
In 1991, Garner starred in ''[[Man of the People (TV series)|Man of the People]]'', a television series about a con man chosen to fill an empty seat on a city council, with [[Kate Mulgrew]] and [[Corinne Bohrer]].<ref>{{cite magazine|first=TV |last=Guide |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/man-of-the-people/cast/202891|title=Man of the People - Full Cast & Crew|magazine=TV Guide|access-date=December 11, 2021}}</ref> Despite reasonably fair ratings, the show was canceled after only 10 episodes.

In 1993, Garner played the lead in a well-received [[HBO]] movie, the true story ''[[Barbarians at the Gate (film)|Barbarians at the Gate]]'', and went on to reprise his role as Jim Rockford in eight ''The Rockford Files'' made-for-TV movies beginning the following year.<ref>{{cite book|author=Strait, Raymond|year=1985|title=James Garner|publisher=New York: St. Martin's|page=[https://archive.org/details/jamesgarner00stra/page/295 295]|isbn=978-0-312-43967-5|url=https://archive.org/details/jamesgarner00stra/page/295}}</ref> Practically everyone in the original cast of recurring characters returned for the new episodes except Noah Beery Jr., who had died in the interim.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tate |first1=Marsha Ann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aD1ZEAAAQBAJ |title=What America Watched: Television Favorites from the Cornfields to the Cosmos, 1960s-1990s |last2=Houser |first2=Earl |date=2022-01-11 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-4465-3 |pages=319 |language=en}}</ref> According to Garner's memoir ''The Garner Files'', he insisted upon being fully paid in cash before the shooting began on each of the Rockford TV-movies.

In 1994, Garner played Marshal Zane Cooper in a movie version of ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'', with [[Mel Gibson]] as [[Maverick (TV series)#1994 film adaptation|Bret Maverick]] (in the end it is revealed that Garner's character is the father of Gibson's Maverick) and [[Jodie Foster]] as a gambling lass with a fake Southern accent.<ref>{{cite news|title=SUMMER SNEAKS '94: Was, Is and Always a Maverick: His signatures are Rockford and Maverick – can anybody in Hollywood do cool and canny better than James Garner?|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=May 15, 1994|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-15-ca-57884-story.html|access-date=November 23, 2010|first=Carla|last=Hall}}</ref>

In 1995, he played lead character Woodrow Call, an ex-lawman, in the TV miniseries sequel to ''[[Lonesome Dove (miniseries)|Lonesome Dove]]'' entitled ''[[Streets of Laredo (miniseries)|Streets of Laredo]]'', based on [[Larry McMurtry]]'s novel. In 1996, Garner and [[Jack Lemmon]] teamed up in ''[[My Fellow Americans]]'', playing two former presidents who uncover scandalous activity by their successor ([[Dan Aykroyd]]) and are pursued by murderous [[NSA]] agents.<ref name="http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=myfellowamericans.htm">{{cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=myfellowamericans.htm|title=Box Office Mojo – My Fellow Americans|access-date=September 14, 2011}}</ref> In addition to a major recurring role during the last part of the run of TV series ''[[Chicago Hope]]'', Garner also starred in two short-lived series, the animated ''[[God, the Devil and Bob]]'' and ''[[First Monday]]'', in which he played a fictional version of the Supreme Court's [[Chief Justice of the United States]].