James Garner
Biography An Okie in Korea Garner was born James Scott Bumgarner in Norman, Oklahoma to Weldon Warren Bumgarner and Mildred Meek. After an endless number of early bad jobs, he joined the Merchant Marine at 16. He was later in the National Guard before being drafted into the Korean War, where he received a Purple Heart. After modeling Jantzen bathing suits in print ads, in 1954 Garner ...