Stuart Margolin, a personality actor best famed for taking part in the buddy to James Garner’s private eye on the hit series “The Rockford Files,” a task that won adult male. Margolin received Honours Awards as best supporting actor in 1979 and 1980 and died on Monday in Staunton, Va. He was 82.

His family aforementioned the cause was complications of carcinoma.

Mr. Stuart Margolin was everywhere on tv from the first Sixties into this century, turning up in episodes of dozens of shows still as in various TV movies. He additionally had a considerable covert career: He wrote many TV movies and directed episodes of “The Rockford Files,” “The Love Boat,” “Touched by AN Angel” and diverse different series. In 1987 he and tough guy Ted Bessell shared a laurel’s nomination for guiding for “The Tracey Ullman Show.”

He achieved a brand new level of visibility once he landed a job as a daily on “Love, Yankee vogue,” a buzz-generating series that debuted in 1969 associated with his brother Arnold being a government producer.

Mr. Margolin’s career was tied to it, man. Garner, one of Hollywood’s prime stars, at many points. Before “The metropolis Files,” which was seen on NBC from 1974 to 1980, he and Mr. Garner were in “Nichols” (1971-72), a transitory western; man. Garner contends with the title character, a sheriff, and Mr. Margolin contends with his deputy.

After “Rockford,” the 2 men were in another western, “Bret Maverick” (1981-82), a sequel to “Maverick,” the show that helped build man. Garner was a star in the Fifties and early ’60s. Mr. Margolin conjointly directed the man. Garner in many “Rockford Files” TV movies.

Mr. Garner might have helped his career, however, it absolutely was mister. Margolin’s ability to make unforgettable impressions, typically with little screen time, created him a fixture of casting directors’ decision lists. That was true even of his Emmy-winning role as Angel Martin, a United Nations agency once served jail time with Metropolis and was each his friend and a thorn in his face.

“Stuart Margolin, as Angel, isn’t on the show weekly,” the syndicated editorialist Dick Kleiner wrote in 1979. “And even once he’s on, largely he’s certainly very little bits and items.”

In addition to acting and directing, Mr. Margolin splattered in music. In 1980 he released a country-rock album, “And the Angel Sings,” in which he was a co-writer on a number of the songs. Reviewing it within the Motor City press, microphone Duffy referred to as “an album of favor, wit, and lowdown fun.