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Jack Starrett
Known for: DirectingJack Starrett (November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989) was an American actor and film director. He is credited as Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr. in some of his films. Starrett is perhaps best known for his role as Gabby Johnson, a parody of Gabby Hayes, in the 1974 classic parody film Blazing Saddles and is also known for his role as the brutal deputy Galt in the 1982 action film First Blood. He also played the cruel foreman Swick in The River. Starrett was often typecast as a tough-talking police officer and played essentially the same character in a trio of biker films: The Born Losers (the film that introduced Billy Jack), Hells Angels on Wheels (both from 1967), and Angels from Hell (1968). He acted in another biker film, Hell's Bloody Devils (1970), and directed two more: Run, Angel, Run in 1969 and Nam's Angels (1970). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Starrett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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First Blood
Blazing Saddles
Slaughter
Race with the Devil
Mr. Horn
as Gen. George Crook
The Born Losers
Grizzly II: Revenge
Cleopatra Jones
A Small Town in Texas
Hells Angels on Wheels
Nightwish
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
The Losers
Kid Blue
The Survival of Dana
The Girls from Thunder Strip
The Gay Deceivers
The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie
Director
Run, Angel, Run!
Cry Blood Apache