Gailard Sartain (born September 18, 1946) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is son of Tulsa’s Fire Chief, Gailard Sartain, 1963 graduate of Will Rogers High School in Tulsa and graduate of Tulsa University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Flag Nickname: Where the South Meets the West Location Location in the state of Oklahoma Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Oklahoma Tulsa County Mayor Kathy Taylor (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 186. ... The University of Tulsa is a private, comprehensive university awarding bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ...

Career

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. An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ...

Sartain's entry into entertainment was launched with his creation and hosting of Tulsa's first late night off-the-wall comedy program "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting". The program was broadcast on KOTV and later, KTUL, both in Tulsa. Guest stars included Gary Busey and Jim Millaway. KOTV, KOTV 6 is the CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States. ... KTUL is the ABC affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ... Gary Busey William Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944 in Goose Creek, Texas) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ...

Sartain as Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi hosted a late night weekend film festival of old movies, dressed as a wizard, wearing a dark blue robe and pointed wizard's cap. The local late-night program featured B-movies, with Sartain and Busey writing and performing skits between the movie segments. Featuring characters such as Yahooudi Men-you-in (a nameplay on the famous violinist, played by Sartain), Coach Chuck, the Reverend Doctor Menlo Park (always seeking "witnesses to my ministry" and Lecil Bevis (of Jerry Ralph R.B. "Bob" Bevis' "Furniture Warehouse Liquidators Showroom Revolution (all Sartain)). Also featured was a pre-Hollywood Gary Busey character, Teddy Jack Eddie.....with the third member of the troupe, Millaway, playing "Sherman Oaks",wearing a receding-hairlined half-mask.

The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting met Saturday nights at 10:30pm after the local newscasts. There were other incidental characters, played by his then girlfriend such as "Little Dar-Leen". Local personalities instantly gained even more local fame when appearing on his program, some like the rock band "Bread", headed by Tulsan David Gates, also a Will Rogers High School alumni.

Following his stint as Mazeppa, Sartain maintained a successful acting career in television as a regular on the network then syndicated program Hee Haw and on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour as well as many others. He has appeared in more than forty motion pictures, most notably as The Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story, The Hollywood Knights, Fried Green Tomatoes and most recently, Elizabethtown. He is also known for his role as Chuck in three of the Ernest movies starring Jim Varney, and also had a memorable but uncredited role in the 1994 comedy Wagons East starring John Candy, and Richard Lewis Hee Haw was a long-running U.S. television variety show hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. ... The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was a variety show which ran on CBS from August 1971 until May 1974. ... Jiles Perry (J.P.) Richardson, Jr. ... The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film which tells the life story of rock musician Buddy Holly. ... The Hollywood Knights is a 1980 movie starring actor/comedian Robert Wuhl as Newbomb Turk. ... Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the name of a novel by Fannie Flagg. ... Elizabethtown is a 2005 film written and directed by Cameron Crowe. ... The name Ernest is derived from the German word ernst, approximately meaning honest and trustworthy. ... James Albert Varney Jr. ... Wagons East is a 1994 Western comedy film starring John Candy and Richard Lewis. ... John Candy in the motion picture Brewsters Millions John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... Richard Lewis may be Richard Lewis (baseball player) Richard Lewis (comedian) Richard Lewis (politician) Richard Lewis (tenor) Richard W. Lewis, literary critic and biographer This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...

External links

• Gailard Sartain at the Internet Movie Database

After Sartain's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting ended on local TV, he had a brief radio incarnation of the show on KAKC in Tulsa (The Unfilmy Can Festival), again featuring the talents of Sartain, Busey, and others. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, television stars, video games and production crew personnel. ...