Gailard Sartain Dies: ‘Hee Haw,’ ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ Actor Was 78
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Gailard Sartain Dies: ‘Hee Haw,’ ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ Actor Was 78
Gailard Sartain, the character actor and comedian whose breakthrough role on Hee Haw launched a career of playing Southern good-ol’-boy that included his memorable performance as The Big Bopper in 1978’s The Buddy Holly Story, died Tuesday, June 17, following a long illness. He was 78. His death was announced on Facebook by The Church Studio, a recording studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma where Sartain’s wife Mary Jo volunteers. Born in Tulsa on Sept…
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