Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
James Garner's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades
The Truth Pioneer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
James Scott Garner (né Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor and producer of film and television. The birth-card coordinate for April 7 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1977 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (The Rockford Files) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 1977 Lead Actor in a Drama Series — The Rockford Files as Jim Rockford
The Ace of Spades coordinate
James Garner's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on James Garner. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.
James Garner in the public record
He was an Academy Award nominee, and won three Golden Globe Awards (out of 12 total nominations) and two Primetime Emmy Awards (out of 15 total nominations). Garner achieved television stardom as the titular gambler Bret Maverick on the television Western Maverick (1957–62), which he later reprised in the sequel series Bret Maverick (1981–82). In the 1970s, he starred as private investigator Jim Rockford on the series The Rockford Files (1974–80). He also played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Grand Prix (1966), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Victor/Victoria (1982), and Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Garner was born James Scott Bumgarner on April 7, 1928, in Norman, Oklahoma, the youngest child of Weldon Warren Bumgarner (1901–1986) and Mildred Scott (née Meek; 1907–1933). His father was of part German ancestry, and his mother, who died when he was five years old, was half Cherokee. His older brothers were Jack Garner (1926–2011), also an actor, and Charles Warren Bumgarner (1924–1984), a school administrator. His family was Methodist.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article James Garner (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about James Garner, and not a forecast of an Emmy.
Cards in James Garner's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♠ — Birth Card: The Truth Pioneer
- 2♣ — Karma — Environment: The Collaborative Builder
- 7♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Reflective Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- J♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Restless Mind
- 4♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 10♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Community Heart
- 6♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Devoted Caregiver
- 4♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Systematic Builder
- 2♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Financial Partner
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.
He liked the work and his shipmates, but he had chronic seasickness and only lasted a year.
Paired on shared wording: lasted, work.
Also on the record
- The family ran a general store at Denver Corner on the east side of Norman.
- After their mother's death, Garner and his brothers were sent to live with relatives.
- Garner attended Wilson Elementary School, Norman Junior High School and Norman High School (Norman Public Schools).
- Garner was reunited with his family in 1934 when his father remarried, the first of several times.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Andre Braugher — 1998 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Homicide: Life on the Street)
- Burt Reynolds — 1991 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Evening Shade)
- Carl Betz — 1969 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Judd, for the Defense)
- Damian Lewis — 2012 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Homeland)
- Jean Marsh — 1975 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Upstairs, Downstairs)
- Jennifer Aniston — 2002 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Friends)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus — 2006 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (The New Adventures of Old Christine); 2012 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2013 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2014 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2015 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2016 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2017 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep)
- Robert Stack — 1960 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (The Untouchables)
FAQ
- What is James Garner's birth card?
- The Ace of Spades. April 7 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do James Garner's dates come from?
- Birth date 1928-04-07 is the day-precision date on James Garner's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (James Garner; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q108510). Birth date 1928-04-07 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).