Jack Starrett

Jack Starrett 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 George Gabby Hayes, in the 1974 classic parody film Blazing Saddles and is also known for his role as the brutal deputy Art Galt in the 1982 action film First Blood. He also played the cruel foreman Swick in The River. Starrett was often typecast as a toughtalking police officer and played essentially the same character in a trio of biker films The Born Losers , Hells Angels on Wheels , and Angels from Hell . He acted in another biker film, Hells Bloody Devils , and directed two more Run, Angel, Run in 1969 and Nams Angels as well as the horror film Race with the Devil , in which he also played a gas station attendant.

Starrett was born Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr. He was raised in Refugio, Texas and worked in the oil fields before coming to Hollywood.

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