Gailard Sartain

Cast in Cameron Crowe's "Elizabethtown" starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst

Played Oliver Hardy in "The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy: For Love or Mummy"

Co-starred with Marcia Gay Harden and Ellen Burstyn in "The Spitfire Grill"

Played role of C.D. Parker during the initial episodes of the CBS detective drama series, "Walker, Texas Ranger", which aired near the end of the 1992-93 season; when series was picked up for the 1993-94 season the role was taken over by Noble Willingham

Cast as the husband of Kathy Bates in "Fried Green Tomatoes"

First TV-movie, "The Chase" (NBC)

Made first appearance in one of the "Ernest" feature films starring Jim Varney, "Ernest Goes to Camp"

Starred opposite Dennis Quaid in "The Big Easy"

Cast in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders"

Made first film for director Alan Rudolph, "Roadie"

Made feature film debut in "The Buddy Holly Story", in which, in his role as the "Big Bopper", he also performed the song, "Chantilly Lace"

Played Willy Billy Honey on the syndicated comedy-variety series, "Hee Haw Honeys", a spinoff from "Hee Haw"

Was a regular on the CBS variety series, "Shields and Yarnell" when it was tried as a regular season series after a popular summer run in 1977

Appeared on the NBC variety pilot, "The Noonday Show", which aired for five installments as a daily program of news, comedy and music

Was a regular on the CBS variety series, "Cher"

Was one of the comic featured on the short-lived sketch comedy series, "Keep on Truckin'"

Was a regular on the long-running TV syndicated variety show, "Hee Haw"

First worked in the entertainment field operating a camera at a small TV station in Oklahoma while he was pursuing graduate studies at the University of Tulsa

Was encouraged by friends to apply for a job as a radio interview host when the star was fired; originally offered a three-week trial engagement and later became the regular host of the program

Was noticed by a talent agent, who arranged for a test for Sartain on the TV series "Hee Haw"