Name
Gailard Sartain
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1946-09-18
Deathday
2025-06-17 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
Gailard Sartain (September 18, 1946 — June 17, 2025) was an American comedian and character actor.
Graduated from the University of Tulsa with a BFA. A successful illustrator, Sartain's artistic credits range from record cover designs such as Leon Russell's "Will O' the Wisp" to illustrations for nationally published magazines. Sartain created and hosted Tulsa's first late night off-the-wall comedy program, "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting".
Known For
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A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up ...
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In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greaser...
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Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who te...
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Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help t...
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A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfr...
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Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollar...
- 1983 The Outsiders as Jerry
- 1993 The Real McCoy as Gary Buckner
- 1988 Mississippi Burning as Sheriff Stuckey
- 1999 Pirates of Silicon Valley as Ed Roberts
- 1986 The Big Easy as Chef Paul
- 1998 The Patriot as Floyd Chisolm
- 1978 The Buddy Holly Story as The Big Bopper
- 1989 Blaze as LaGrange
- 1988 Ernest Saves Christmas as Chuck
- 1987 Made in Heaven as Sam Morrell
- 1988 The Moderns as New York Critic
- 1992 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot as Munroe
- 1984 Choose Me as Mueller
- 1982 Endangered Species as Mayor
- 1996 The Spitfire Grill as Sheriff Gary Walsh
- 1990 The Grifters as Joe
- 1994 Clean Slate as Judge Block
- 1987 Ernest Goes to Camp as Jake
- 1990 Ernest Goes to Jail as Chuck
- 1981 Hard Country as Johnny Bob
- 1999 The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy as Oliver Hardy
- 1991 Fried Green Tomatoes as Ed Couch
- 2000 The Replacements as Pilachowski
- 2001 Ali as Gordon Davidson
- 1997 RocketMan as Mr. Randall (uncredited)
- 1994 Wagons East! as J.P. Moreland (uncredited)
- 1999 Existo as Colette Watchuwill
- 1991 Death Falls as Hearse Driver
- 1993 Sandman as Dave
- 1987 Leader of the Band as Elmo De Lavallard
- 1986 Uphill All the Way as Private
- 1980 Roadie as B.B. Muldoon
- 1991 Guilty by Suspicion as Chairman Wood
- 1984 All of Me as Fulton Norris
- 1978 Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws as Arthur Leddy
- 1992 Wishman as Dr. Abe Rogers
- 2005 Elizabethtown as Charles Dean
- 1994 Getting Even with Dad as Carl
- 1984 Songwriter as Mulreaux
- 2002 The Round and Round as Jim Stoops
- 1997 Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way as Don Zimmer
- 1997 Murder in Mind as Charlie
- 1992 Equinox as Dandridge
- 1990 Love at Large as Taxi Driver
- 1975 Nashville as Man at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
- 1991 The Chase as Hammer
- 1999 That Championship Season as High School Principal (uncredited)
- 1979 The Jerk as Guy with Cracked Airplane Seats (uncredited)
- 1985 Trouble in Mind as Fat Adolph
- 1980 The Hollywood Knights as Bimbeau
- 1993 Cooperstown as Georgia State Trooper
- 1994 Speechless as Lee Cutler
- 1995 Open Season as George Plunkett
- 1993 Cooperstown as George State Trooper
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Big Daddy (voice)
- 1996 The Pretender ( 1 episode ) as Tug Beaulieu
- 1997 King of the Hill ( 1 episode ) as Case Manager (voice)
- 1993 Walker, Texas Ranger ( 1 episode ) as C.D. Parker
- 1969 Hee Haw ( 29 episodes )
- 1994 Chicago Hope ( 1 episode ) as Senator Thomason
- 1988 Hey Vern, It's Ernest! ( 13 episodes ) as Chuck
- 1978 Hee Haw Honeys ( 24 episodes )
- 1975 Cher ( 29 episodes ) as Self
- 1996 Arli$$ ( 1 episode ) as Hubert Lynch
