Many people younger than I am know who Gailard Sartain is. He’s been in plenty of movies, including “The Buddy Holly Story” and “Fried Green Tomatoes.” But if you can identify Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi, ...

Gailard Sartain, the character actor known for films such as Mississippi Burning and Elizabethtown, has died. He was 78. The Oklahoma-born actor got his start playing a wizard named Dr. Mazeppa ...

Jim Millaway, who worked with his friend and future movie actor Gailard Sartain on the legendary "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting," has often said that the two of them ...

Tulsan Gailard Sartain created the late-night sketch show Doctor Mazeppa Pompazoidi’s Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting at KOTV about 50 years ago and shares how he was discovered for Hee Haw.