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Gailard Sartain
Highest Rated: 94% Choose Me (1984)
Lowest Rated: 3% Getting Even With Dad (1994)
Birthday: Sep 18, 1946
Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
A hefty, beaming character player and comedian of TV and films with tousled hair and an often hearty manner, Gailard Sartain has played a wide range of roles but has been most typically cast as small-town country bumpkins. He began in entertainment operating a camera for a small Oklahoma TV station while pursuing graduate studies in fine arts at the University of Tulsa. Encouraged by friends, he auditioned to replace a fired radio interview host, successfully held the job for a time, and was noticed by a talent scout. The hit CBS comedy-variety series "Hee Haw" had recently been let go by the network in a corporate decision to eliminate lowbrow entertainment in favor of more prestigious fare. But syndication had the last laugh and Sartain chuckled along, joining the series in 1972 and staying for nearly 20 seasons of country music, neo-vaudeville shtick and wooden plank slaps in the rear amid the goings-on in Kornfield Kounty.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28% | 66% | Elizabethtown | Charles Dean (Character) | $26.8M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Round and Round | Gailard Sartain (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 41% | 66% | The Replacements | Pilachowski (Character) | $44.7M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | For Love or Mummy | Oliver Fattius Hardy (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 89% | 82% | Pirates of Silicon Valley | Ed Roberts (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Existo | Colette Watchuwill (Character) | $12.2K | 1999 |
| 20% | 31% | The Patriot | Floyd Chisolm (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way | Don Zimmer (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Murder in Mind | Charlie (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 38% | 76% | The Spitfire Grill | Sheriff Gary Walsh (Character) | $12.6M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Open Season | George Plunkett (Character) | $5.2K | 1995 |
| 10% | 33% | Speechless | Kratz (Character) | $19.6M | 1994 |
| 3% | 25% | Getting Even With Dad | Carl (Character) | $18.1M | 1994 |
| 33% | 41% | Equinox | Dandridge (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 22% | 60% | The Real McCoy | Gary Buckner (Character) | $6.3M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cooperstown | Georgia State Trooper (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 14% | 21% | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | Munroe (Character) | $26.6M | 1992 |
| 68% | 55% | Guilty by Suspicion | Chairman Wood (Character) | $8.4M | 1991 |
| 76% | 87% | Fried Green Tomatoes | Ed Couch (Character) | $81.2M | 1991 |
| 11% | 49% | Ernest Goes to Jail | Chuck (Character) | $25.0M | 1990 |
| 75% | 49% | Blaze | LaGrange (Character) | $19.0M | 1989 |
| 79% | 90% | Mississippi Burning | Sheriff Ray Stuckey (Character) | $33.7M | 1988 |
| 36% | 43% | Ernest Saves Christmas | Chuck (Storage Agent) (Character) | $28.1M | 1988 |
| 56% | 82% | Made in Heaven | Sam Morrell (Character) | $4.6M | 1987 |
| 62% | 51% | Ernest Goes to Camp | Jake (Character) | $23.4M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leader of the Band | Elmo De Lavallard (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 94% | 73% | Choose Me | Mueller (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 89% | 43% | Songwriter | Mulreaux (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 70% | 82% | The Outsiders | Jerry (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Hard Country | Johnny Bob (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 14% | 57% | Roadie | B.B. Muldoon (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 14% | 71% | The Hollywood Knights | Bimbeau (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws | Arthur Leddy (Character) | - | 1978 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 71% | King of the Hill | Case Manager (Guest Voice) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Hope | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hey Vern, It's Ernest! | Chuck (Character) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dukes of Hazzard | A.C. Tate Jr. (Guest Star) | 1983 |