Though best known for comedy, he also played serious roles, including a sinister sheriff in “Mississippi Burning.” The director Alan Rudolph cast him in nine films.

The Studio is pitched as a send-up of the idiocy of the entertainment industry, but its potshots are harmless, even friendly.

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Gailard Sartain, the Tulsa, Oklahoma-born character actor with nearly 75 TV and movie roles to his credit, died on Thursday, ...

Known for his roles in films like "The Outsiders," "Fried Green Tomatoes" and three "Ernest" movies, the Tulsan died Thursday, June 19. He was 78.

Director Robert Altman’s 1975 opus ‘Nashville’ is an ensemble comedy that feels more vibrantly vivid and noisily prescient ...

The Tulsa native is survived by his wife Mary Jo The post Gailard Sartain, ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ and ‘Hee Haw’ Actor, Dies ...

The pride of Tulsa also showed up in three Ernest movies, played The Big Bopper in ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ and did nine films ...

Gailard Sartain, the character actor and comedian whose breakthrough role on Hee Haw launched a career of playing Southern ...

Tulsans became familiar with Gailard Sartain before the rest of the world because of his comedic work on a local late-night ...

Nashville, Music City USA, didn't know what to make of "Nashville," the Robert Altman-directed, critically acclaimed and inwardly mocked film of 1975.