Jack Starrett

Jack Starrett was an American actor and director who was raised in Refugio, Texas, where he worked in the oil fields before heading to Hollywood. He was best known for playing Gabby Johnson, a parody of Gabby Hayes, in Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974), and for the brutal policeman Art Galt in First Blood (1982). Earlier he appeared in biker films such as The Born Losers (1967) and Hells Angels on Wheels (1967). He directed Run, Angel, Run in 1969, Nam's Angels in 1970, and the 1975 horror movie Race with the Devil, in which he also appeared as a gas station attendant. He played Swick, a cruel foreman, in The River (1984), starred as Coach Jennings in Like Father Like Son (1961), and reprised the role in The Young Sinner (1965) and later Like Father Like Son (1987). He directed episodes of television programs and made guest appearances on Hill Street Blues, Hunter, Knight Rider and The A-Team.