[1] He played Benjamin Franklin in the musical hit 1776, a role he reprised on tour and in various stock productions.

In 1986, he took over the role of Sir John Tremayne from Tony winner George S. Irving in the original Broadway staging of Me and My Girl.

[1] 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.

On the big screen Garner appeared as Doctor Robinson in Silent Night, Bloody Night, and had a featured role in the Steve Martin film Pennies From Heaven, in which he played the banker who shares a dance and comic kiss with Martin.

[2] Garner died on January 21, 2011, in New York City after suffering from a respiratory illness, aged 82.