Jack 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 toughtalking 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 Hells Bloody Devils 1970 and directed two more Run Angel Run in 1969 and Nams Angels 1970 Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Starrett licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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