"Hee Haw" star Gailard Sartain has died at 81, leaving behind a legacy of memorable characters and film roles including his ...

June 20 (UPI) -- Gailard Sartain, an actor who starred in Hee Haw and Fried Green Tomatoes, died Tuesday. He was 78. The ...

Beloved character actor Gailard Sartain, known for “Hee Haw,” “Mississippi Burning” and “Fried Green Tomatoes,” has died at ...

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 ...

Everett Kenneth "Kenny" Law was a popular figure on Moonshiners since Season 8 and cousin to Henry Law. The Discovery show announced his death with a post to social media on Jan. 16. He was 68 years ...

Victoria Hallman, who starred as Miss Honeydew on Hee Haw, remembered Gailard Sartain as a beloved presence on set. She told TMZ he felt like a big brother to her and was so funny, the cast ...

The cast of the show also featured another Tulsa native named Gary Busey, who would go on to a very successful acting career of his own. Sartain's stint on the show led to his casting on Hee Haw ...

“Actually, he died of silliness,” she said. In 1972, Sartain joined the cast of the syndicated country variety show Hee Haw, and he would stick around for the next two decades playing such ...

On “Hee Haw,” Sartain most frequently appeared as Sheriff Orville P. Bullmoose. That wouldn’t be the last time he’d be cast as a lawman. He played Sheriff Gary Walsh in the Ellen Burstyn ...