‘Hee Haw’ actor Gailard Sartain dead at 81

“Hee Haw” star Gailard Sartain died. He was 81 years old.

The actor in “Mississippi Burning” and “Buddy Holly Story” died for natural reasons at his home on Thursday, confirming his wife Mary Jo Sartain Fox News Digital.

36 -year -old wife, Mary, “Everyone has a Gailard story that they tell with a smile. Keep telling their stories.” He said.

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Sartain joined the “Hee Haw” squad in 1972. For 20 years, he took part in various characters, including Orville The Cook and Clerk Maynard.

He also played Willie Billy Honey in Hee Haw Hew Honey “since 1978-1979. Lulu novel, Kathie Lee Gifford and Misty Rowe also played a role.

Together with Hee Haw “, Sartain appeared in the nine feature film directed by Alan Rudolph:” Roadie “,” Equinox “,” Modernity “,” Great Love “,” Song Writer “,” Endangered Types “,” Choose Me, “In mind,”

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During an interview Tulsa World Newspaper In 2017, Sartain told Outlet that he enjoyed working with Rudolph because he said, “I would relax me. So I would find the character accents and things and I would go for it.”

He was a high career for Sartain and a racist sheriff in “Mississippi Burning” launched in 1988.

Tulsa admitted that Sartain was difficult to get in the same role during the world interview.

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“Nobody likes to write as a simple peasant, so when I had the opportunity to make other roles, I did it happily. I reversed such and such things. I just wrote it as a funny man. This was a bit important.” He said.

Sartain was born in 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Actor, his wife, children Sarah, Esther and Me survived by his grandson Chloe and his great grandson Teddy.