Maverick (1957)
Plot.
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical.
When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Cast & Crew.
Roy Huggins
Creator / Producer / Writer / Teleplay
James Garner
Bret Maverick
Coles Trapnell
Producer / Director
Roger Moore
Beauregarde Maverick
William T. Orr
Producer
Jack Kelly
Bart Maverick
Stacy Keach, Sr.
Sheriff
Marie Windsor
Cora
Richard Webb
Ben Maxwell
Esther Dale
Ma Braus
George D. Wallace
Sheriff Joe Holly
John Zaremba
Gantry
William Wallace
Set Decoration
Howard Campbell
Art Direction
Anna Lee
Helene Ferguson
Harold E. Stine
Director of Photography
Vladimir Sokoloff
Pedro Rubio
Leslie H. Martinson
Director
Douglas Heyes
Director / Writer / Story
Arthur Lubin
Director
Barbara Jo Allen
Celia Mallaver
Richard L. Bare
Director
Irving J. Moore
Director
Leslie Goodwins
Director
George Waggner
Director
Abby Dalton
Carrie Christianson
James V. Kern
Director
Lee Sholem
Director
Montgomery Pittman
Director / Writer
Budd Boetticher
Director
Michael O'Herlihy
Director
Lew Landers
Director
Kem Dibbs
Connors
Sidney Salkow
Director
Abner Biberman
Director
Richard Crane
Jedd Ferris
Paul Henreid
Director
Karen Steele
Molly Gleason
Franklin Adreon
Director
Marc Lawrence
Director
Richard C. Sarafian
Director
Herbert L. Strock
Director
Walter Doniger
Director
Robert Gordon
Director
Robert B. Sinclair
Director
André de Toth
Director
Dick Wilson
Crenshaw
Robert Altman
Director
Gordon Douglas
Director
David Lowell Rich
Director
Reginald Le Borg
Director
Howard W. Koch
Director
Alan Crosland, Jr.
Director
Charles F. Haas
Director
Rex Lipton
Editor
Jim Backus
Joe Wheelwright
Marion Hargrove
Writer / Teleplay
Gene Levitt
Teleplay / Writer / Story
Howard Browne
Writer
Gerald Drayson Adams
Writer
Russell S. Hughes
Writer / Teleplay
James Barnett
Writer
Elizabeth MacRae
Emily Todd
DeVallon Scott
Writer
Carey Wilber
Writer
Bob Mitchell
Story
James O'Hanlon
Teleplay
Thomas W. Blackburn
Teleplay
Joseph Chadwick
Story
Jerry Davis
Writer
Elmer Kelton
Story
Pat Crowley
Lydia Lynley
George F. Slavin
Teleplay
Horace McCoy
Story
Robert Vincent Wright
Writer
James Griffith
John Wesley Hardin
Clint Walker
Cheyenne Bodie
Mona Freeman
Modesty Blaine
Rhodes Reason
Hank Foster
Sheb Wooley
Sheriff
Jim Bannon
Matson
James Anderson
Whitey Blandon
Adam Williams
Sam Elkins
Dan Tobin
Lucius Benson / Howard Harris
Gertrude Flynn
Nettie Moss
Leo Gordon
Big Mike McComb / Writer / Teleplay
Merry Anders
Penelope Greeley
Sig Ruman
Capt. Steeger
Sammy Jackson
Bellhop (uncredited)
Kathleen Crowley
Daisy Harris
R. G. Armstrong
Wellington Cosgrove
Jack Livesey
Gillespie MacKenzie
Forrest Lewis
Alec Fall
Edd Byrnes
The Kid / Wes Fallon
Tommy Farrell
Lefty Dolan
Michael Dante
Sam Harris / Turk Mason
Diane Brewster
Samantha Crawford
Ed Nelson
2nd Classmate (uncredited)
Mickey Simpson
Jubal
Adele Mara
June Mundy
Slim Pickens
Roscoe
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Dandy Jim Buckley
Walter Reed
Bledsoe
Peter Brown
Chris Semple / Rip Fallon
Richard Long
Gentleman Jack Darby
Andrew Duggan
Big Ed Murphy
Lane Chandler
Lawson (uncredited)
Patric Knowles
Paul Carthew
Mike Connors
Ralph Jordan / Sheriff Barney Fillmore
Reginald Owen
Marquis Norbert Belcastle
Fay Spain
Ruth Overton
Sandra Gould
Lucy
Barbara Lang
Amy Lawrence
Clint Eastwood
Red Hardigan
Joan Vohs
Martha Ferris
Terence de Marney
Murphy / Snopes
Neil Hamilton
Archibald Vandergelt
Don Beddoe
Price
Chick Chandler
Oliver Perkins
Ruth Terry
Librarian
Tyler McVey
Hayes
Ed Kemmer
Clete Overton
Irene Tedrow
Mrs. Ambrose Tutwiller
Tol Avery
George Cross / John Sloan
Joan Marshall
Lucy Sutter
Myron Healey
Jim Mundy
Bartlett Robinson
Longhurst
Jack Buetel
Phillips (as Jack Beutel)
Edmund Lowe
Phineas King
Paul Fierro
Miguel
Mort Mills
McGaven / Red Scanlon
Linda Lawson
Lily
Lee Turnbull
Bartender
Karl Weber
Quincy T. Smith
Laurie Carroll
Yvette Devereaux
Percy Helton
Mr. Venner
Stephen Bekassy
Henri Devereaux
Ray Teal
Mart Fallon / Sheriff Chick Tucker
Dorothea Lord
Mrs. McCoy
Rex Lease
Poker Player #2
Lane Bradford
Matt Hendricks
Raymond Hatton
Stableman
William Allyn
Livingston
Peter Whitney
Gunnerson
Chet Stratton
Desk Clerk
Trevor Bardette
Bert Coleman / Inspector Marvin
Luis Delgado
2nd Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Stanley Farrar
Doctor (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Kasey Rogers
Dolly
Jack Mower
Vandergelt Worker (uncredited)
Emile Meyer
Pike
Nina Shipman
Joanne Moss
Lisa Montell
Andalucia Rubio
Jeff DeBenning
Dave Taylor
Craig Duncan
Val Joyce
Robert Colbert
Brent Maverick
Randy Stuart
Mavis Todd
Fred Krone
Walt
Clyde Howdy
Townsperson (uncredited)
Terry Frost
Sheriff
Clarke Alexander
Sheriff
Rand Brooks
Jack Blair / Second at Duel (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Chubby Johnson
Simmons / Billy Waker
Herbert Lytton
Gus the Bartender (uncredited) / Bartender (uncredited) / Dr. Teller
Ted White
Sioux Indian (uncredited)
Steve Raines
Townsman (uncredited) / Sims
Robert Casper
Freddie Bognor
Alberto Morin
Hotel Clerk / Chef
Alan Hewitt
George Parker
Laurie Mitchell
Ellen
Sherry Jackson
Annie Haines
John Qualen
Leland Mills
Jeanne Cooper
Virginia Cory
Robert Logan
Ben Daniels
Dale Van Sickel
Monty (uncredited)
Carla Merey
Edie Stoller
Douglas Kennedy
Connors
Benny Baker
Mike Brill
Bing Russell
Russ Aikens / Tyler Brink
Mitchell Kowall
Fred Callahan
Charles Tannen
Jeff
Joseph Gallison
Small Paul Wheelwright
Harry Harvey
Western Union Telegrapher (uncredited) / Store Owner / Capt. Owens / Mueller the Jeweler (uncredited) / Stagecoach Drive...
Edgar Buchanan
Jed Christianson / Daddy David Forge / Sheriff Hadley
Howard Negley
Sheriff Tibbs
Fern Barry
Ella Taylor
Robert 'Buddy' Shaw
Dave Taylor
Thomas Browne Henry
Auctioneer / Mac McGuire
Ollie O'Toole
McLean
Maxine Cooper
Donna Seely
Jay Novello
Henry Tree / Coroner Oliver Poole / Paco Torres
Olive Sturgess
Phyllis Hulett / Phoebe Albright
John Dehner
John Bates / Big Ed Murphy
Harry Cheshire
Judge
Tyler MacDuff
Drake
Oliver Blake
Brimmer
Karl Swenson
Captain Nares / Sheriff Griffin
Alan Austin
Tommy Norton
Sam Flint
Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
Buddy Ebsen
Nero Lyme
Rusty Wescoatt
Gus Shaughnessy
Forbes Murray
Diner Patron (uncredited)
Tom McKee
La Mesa Sheriff / Deputy Arresting Maverick (uncredited)
Gregory Walcott
Cole Younger
Joel Grey
Billy The Kid
Jack Gordon
Frank James (uncredited)
Nancy Kulp
Waitress (uncredited)
Michael Forest
Jean Paul St. Cloud
John Litel
Judge Joshua Thayer / Judge Somervell / Ellsworth Greeley
Robert Bray
John Wilson
John Russell
John Grimes / Edgar Maxwell
Robert Redford
Jimmy Coleman
Edward Ashley
Nobby Ned Wingate
Fred Graham
Tanner (uncredited) / Bartender (uncredited) / Casino Patron (uncredited) / 1st Miner
Virginia Gregg
Gida Jamison / Amy Hardie
Bill Erwin
Hotel Clerk / Pawn Shop Dealer (uncredited) / Evans (uncredited)
Don Durant
Jody Collins
Wright King
Rick
Herb Vigran
Mr. Butler
Jean Del Val
Anton Rivage
Pamela Duncan
Coral Stacey
Joan Shawlee
Madame Pompey
Chris Alcaide
Tony Cadiz
Syd Saylor
Depot Master / 1st Townsman
Mike Lane
Noah Perkins
Pat Comiskey
Battling Kreuger
Robert Carson
Kittredge / Hotel Manager (uncredited) / Masher
Marshall Bradford
Marshal Hunt
Earle Hodgins
Johnson / Ernest Plunkett
Ron Hayes
Max Evers
Jim Hayward
Miner
Julie Adams
Belle Morgan
Miguel Landa
Henrique Fillipe
Nita Talbot
Bessie Bison
Stephen Colt
The Wire Salesman
Dean Fredericks
Mitchell
James Parnell
Sheriff
Jon Lormer
Newspaperman / Somers
Al Hopson
Fred Carter
Ezelle Poule
Mrs. Adams
John Harmon
Nelson / Saloon Keeper / Depot Agent / Ziggy
Fredd Wayne
Carl Jimson / Kingsley
Frank Ferguson
Sheriff McPeters / Sheriff Luther Hawkins / Genessee Jones
Willard Sage
George Buckner / Bert Nicholson
Maurice Manson
Thomas Bellairs
Allen Kramer
Jerome Braus
Don Kennedy
Humbolt
Gordon Barnes
Marshal
Robert Keys
Parker
Zon Murray
Fletcher / Miner (uncredited)
Jean Willes
Lil / Belle Starr
John Vivyan
Walter Osbourne / John Stacey / Cousin Millard
Charles Arnt
Charlie Mason
Mark Tapscott
Deputy / First Poker Player (uncredited) / Charlie / Charles W. Farfan
Morris Ankrum
Joshua Haines
Werner Klemperer
Alex Jennings
Ed Prentiss
John / Ralph Bordeen
Oliver McGowan
Jerome Horne
Arthur Batanides
Norman Brock
Bob Steele
Wells / Jailed Cowhand Billy (uncredited) / Walter Jackson
Frank Faylen
Red Harrison
Barbara Nichols
Blanche
John Alderson
Zindler / Ben Chapman
Dick Foran
Sheriff Edwards
William Reynolds
Bill Gregg / Ted Blake
Dan Sheridan
Sideburns / Luther / Dr. George Baxter / Bald Bill King
Irving Bacon
Employee
Catherine McLeod
Margaret Ross
Gage Clarke
Bradshaw
Russ Conway
Sheriff
Lewis Martin
Andrew Wiggins
Murvyn Vye
Jamie Craven / Gus Wilson
John Cliff
George / Cliff Sharp
Hugh Sanders
Blaine
Frank Cady
Hamelin
William Forrest
Roland / Laramie Banker
Bobby Jordan
Willy / Bank Teller (uncredited)
Tom Monroe
Slim
Ken Christy
Sheriff
Donald Kirke
First Juror
Robert Lynn
Doctor
Jacqueline Beer
Henriette
Robert Foulk
Sheriff Sam Shadley / Moose Horton / Sheriff (uncredited)
Lily Valenty
Madame
Richard Garland
Elliott Larkin / Wes Corwin
Peter Breck
Sheriff Dan Trevor / Doc Holliday
Otto Waldis
Scharff
Will Wright
Sheriff Chester Bentley / General Hoyt Bosco / Jabe Hallock / General Eakins
Robert Fairfax
Shelbourne
Carlyle Mitchell
General Marvin
Lela Bliss
Mrs. Shelbourne
Katherine Barrett
Mrs. Kingsley
Jack Gargan
Poker Player (uncredited) / Second Poker Player (uncredited)
Patrick Whyte
Selby
Ted de Corsia
Cannonball Clyde Bassett / Joe Riggs / Amos Parker
Robert J. Wilke
McCabe / Diamond Dan Malone
Paul Power
Pyne
Peggy McCay
Melissa 'Missy' Maybrook / Melissa Bouchet
Tod Griffin
Jack Wade
Russell Thorson
Marshal Walt Hardie
Nick Dimitri
Stage Passenger (uncredited) / Brawler (uncredited)
James McCallion
Charlie
John Hubbard
Sampson Bronze / Richard Bixby / Paul Brooks
Morgan Shaan
Slim
Gerald Mohr
Doc Holliday / Giacomo Beretti / Johnny Bolero / Gus Tellson / Steve Corbett
Arlene Howell
Cindy Lou Brown / Ladybird Forge
Thurston Hall
Judge
Stanley Andrews
Sheriff Galt
John Dodsworth
Clayton Palmer
Aline Towne
Laura Miller
Richard Farnsworth
Clint (uncredited) / Stage Driver (uncredited)
Gene Nelson
Jim Hazlit
Don Kelly
Jett
Paul Savage
Tall Man
Russ Bender
Doctor
Mike Ragan
1st Johnny Reb
Myrna Fahey
Susie / Dee Cooper / Carla Marchese
Phillip Terry
Chick Braus
James Philbrook
Sloan
Erin O'Brien
Linda Harris / Victoria Forge
Roy Barcroft
Marshal / The Cattleman
Myrna Dell
Anita
Joseph V. Perry
Pritchard
King Donovan
Ty Hardin
Hanley Stafford
Steve Brodie
Med Flory
Trent Dolan
George N. Neise
Lee Van Cleef
Brad Johnson
Don Haggerty
Willard Waterman
Whit Bissell
Howard McNear
James Westerfield
Francis McDonald
Pippa Scott
Chuck Hayward
Rhys Williams
Gordon Jones
Charles Stevens
Wayde Preston
Patrick Westwood
Bud Osborne
John Hoyt
Carlos Romero
Mike Road
Richard Coogan
Hampton Fancher
Robert Douglas
Director
Coleen Gray
Frank Sully
Michael Pate
Lisa Gaye
Diana Millay
Paul Birch
Allyson Ames
George Kennedy
Peggy King
William Schallert
Lyle Talbot
Kay E. Kuter
Harry Lauter
Lynn Cartwright
Robert Rockwell
Chad Everett
Dolores Donlon
Barry Kelley
Joe De Santis
Paula Raymond
Roscoe Ates
Murray Alper
Forrest Taylor
Jack Mather
Mayor Clyde Moss / Judge Hardy
Connie Stevens
Arthur Shields
Roberta Shore
Sheila Bromley
Ross Elliott
Gary Conway
Joyce Meadows
Robert Warwick
Doris Lloyd
Kaye Elhardt
Clem Bevans
Mickey Shaughnessy
Wayne Morris
Herbert Rudley
H.M. Wynant
Patricia Breslin
Clancy Cooper
Earl Hammond
Abraham Sofaer
Stanley Adams
Henry Corden
Andrea King
Dan White
Shirley Knight
Hal Baylor
Alan Baxter
Steve Pendleton
Marshall Reed
Charles Meredith
John Mitchum
Tim Rooney
Richard Deacon
Sheldon Allman
Jo Morrow
Carl Milletaire
Louis Jean Heydt
Byron Foulger
Hotel Clerk
Sam Buffington
Ponca Brown / Bigelow / Logan
Francis De Sales
Mr. Gilling
Sydney Mason
Mr. Lockridge
Charles Quigley
Mr. Banning
Jay Jostyn
Mr. Fayette
Joan Weldon
Grace Wheeler
Rico Alaniz
Fernando
Eugene Iglesias
Ricardo
I. Stanford Jolley
Sheriff / McClure
Roberto Contreras
Alfredo
Manuel López
Diego
Jorge Moreno
Ubaldo
Hans Conried
Homer Eakins
Arch Johnson
Ephrim Burch / Col. Gaylord Summers
Whitney Blake
Letty French / Molly Clifford
Theona Bryant
Cousin Hope
Jane Darwell
Mrs. Knowles
Edith Leslie
Cousin Elizabeth
Jonathan Hole
Desk Clerk / Brent Williams
Eddie Marr
Drummer / R.J. Guthrie / Sykes
Charles Bateman
Cousin Jeff
Jimmie Horan
Cousin Pliney
David McMahon
Sheriff
Charles Fredericks
Jessie Hayden / Joe Hays
Robert Lowery
Paul Asher
Adam West
George Henry Arnett / Rudolph St. Cloud
Rory Mallinson
Gunman (uncredited) / Local Sheriff (uncredited) / Search Party Member (uncredited)
Claude Akins
Paisley Briggs
Emory Parnell
Hank / Fred Grady / Bill Anders / Cousin Lonnie
Saundra Edwards
Lettie
Joi Lansing
Doll Hayes
Frances Morris
Mrs. Pierce
Joanna Barnes
Mary Shane / Mrs. Baxter / Daphne Tolliver / Abby Taylor / Felice de Lassignac #1
Lou Krugman
Ferguson / Murdock
Terry Rangno
Grady Lester
Ruta Lee
Laura Dillon / Ellen Bordeen / Dolly
Robert Griffin
Mayor
Nacho Galindo
Carlos / Chucho Morales
Burt Mustin
Henry
Richard Reeves
Anthony Offord / Bull Crumpett / Rafe Plummer / Prospector / Monty / Rex Clark
Fred Sherman
Bartender (uncredited) / Clerk / John Stoller
Max Baer Jr.
Cowboy / Brazos / Ticket Taker / Ezra
Claire Carleton
Flora
George O'Hanlon
Caldwell / Cousin Elmo / Morton Connors
Hal Hopper
Horace / Stanley
Ruth Warren
Local Gossip
Damian O'Flynn
Mr. Tabor / Poker Player (uncredited)
Tom Kennedy
Barkeep (uncredited) / Poker Player (uncredited)
Charlie Briggs
Little Jeb Plummer
Joan Elan
Lady Ellen Belcastle
Seymour Green
Albert Belcastle
Gordon Richards
Benson
Walter Barnes
First Outlaw
Robert Nash
Foreman
Lilyan Chauvin
Sydney Sue Shipley
Martin Landau
Mike Manning
Paul Picerni
Rene Gireaux
Jack Lomas
Mayor / Bartender
Tony Romano
Chicuelo
Ralph Faulkner
Herr Ziegler
Louis Mercier
Raoul Gireaux
William D. Gordon
Sam Garth
Anna-Lisa
Karen Gustavson
Mel Welles
Carlos
Nico Minardos
Enrico
Rosa Turich
Mexican Woman
Jean Allison
Madame Higgins
Bert Remsen
Deputy George
Claudia Bryar
Mrs. Pyne
Dan Blocker
Hognose M. Hughes
Bethel Leslie
Janet Kilmer
William Phipps
Hazelton
Nestor Paiva
Louie
Peter Mamakos
Watchman
Regis Toomey
Ben Granville
Joan Young
Susan Granville
Patrick McVey
Roy Stafford / Sheriff Morrison Pyne
Val Benedict
Cowhand
Charlotte Knight
Mrs. Effie Walker (uncredited)
Don C. Harvey
Sheriff Bentley / George Morgan (uncredited) / Sheriff / Clyde
Doug McClure
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Hal Taggart
Bank Teller (uncredited) / Poker Player (uncredited) / La Mesa Hotel Clerk (uncredited) / Harris (uncredited) / Telegrap...
Louis Quinn
Townsman (uncredited) / Barber (uncredited)
Jimmy Lydon
Terry McKenna
Nancy Gates
Dorothy Chapman / Laura Stanton
Troy Donahue
Dan Jamison
Charles Cooper
Phillip Stanton / Claude Rogan
Guy Wilkerson
Cecil Mason / Judd Kerns
Ralph Sanford
Sheriff (uncredited)
Larry Chance
Henry Wheelwright
Norman Leavitt
Bartender (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
Chief Thomas Rawlins
Paul Bryar
Officer Noonan
Sol Gorss
Gunman (uncredited) / Brawler (uncredited)
Albert Carrier
Phillipe Theirot
Lovyss Bradley
Congregation Member (uncredited)
Tris Coffin
Dr. Pittman
Claude Stroud
Henry
Alan Mowbray
Luke Abigor
William Challee
Bartender
Fred Stromsoe
Townsman (uncredited) / Poker Player (uncredited) / Card player (uncredited)
Alexander Campbell
Abner Morton / Horatio Cromwell
John Astin
Joe Lambert
Roy Engel
Marshal Ratcliffe / Sampson
Frank Albertson
Harvey Storey
Chuck Hicks
Gentleman Joe Bartlett (uncredited) / Corporal (uncredited)
Brad Johnson
Jim Reardon
Henry Brandon
Rand Storm
Tom London
Farmer
Carl Esmond
Comte de Lisle
Dawn Wells
Caprice Rambeau
Dick Cherney
Casino Patron (uncredited) / Denver House Patron (uncredited)
Donnelly Rhodes
Cain
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 22, 1957
StatusEnded
Seasons5
Episodes124
Running Time1h
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
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Wiki.
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner as an adroitly articulate poker player plying his trade on riverboats and in saloons while traveling incessantly through the 19th-century American frontier. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962 on ABC.
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