Jay Garner

Acting

Jay Garner

Born 1929-01-17 · Sewanee, Tennessee, USA

Jay Garner (January 17, 1929 – January 21, 2011), born James H. Garner Jr., was an American actor. Television audiences know him as Admiral Asimov in the second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and as lecherous food critic Jason Defarge in Three's Company.

Acting credits

Hanky Panky poster
5.3

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

Hanky Panky

1982

Pennies from Heaven poster
6.1

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

Pennies from Heaven

1981

Night of the Dark Full Moon poster
5.1

A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.

Night of the Dark Full Moon

1972

Mae West poster
5.8

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.

Mae West

1982

Dynamite Chicken poster
5.5

A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement.

Dynamite Chicken

1971

Between Time and Timbuktu poster
7.7

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.

Between Time and Timbuktu

1972

Working poster
4.8

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.

Working

1982

Paradise Lost poster
9.0

Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.

Paradise Lost

1971

F.D.R.: The Last Year poster
6.9

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980

Kurdish Factor poster
6.0

Democratic, pro-Western Iraqi Kurds are forward thinking, sensitive to women's rights, effective in the fight against ISIS and an important role in the 2 Gulf Wars. They stand on the threshold of an independent state and are a vital component in the establishment of long-term peace in the region.

Kurdish Factor

2018