# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gailard-sartain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:24:05.329Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gailard-sartain"
name: "Gailard Sartain"
slug: "gailard-sartain"
description: "Gailard Lee Sartain Jr. was an American actor who frequently played characters with roots in the South. He was a regular on the country music variety series Hee Haw and was also known for his roles in three of the Ernest movies and the TV series Hey Vern, It's Ernest!, which ran for one season on CBS in 1988. He was also a successful painter and illustrator."
tagline: "American actor (1943–2025)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Cropped_Photo_of_Gailard_Sartain.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-09-18"
deathDate: "2025-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.326673676831405
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump