Gailard Sartain, the character actor and comedian whose breakthrough role on Hee Haw launched a career of playing Southern good-ol’-boy that included his memorable performance as The Big Bopper in ...

Beloved character actor Gailard Sartain, known for “Hee Haw,” “Mississippi Burning” and “Fried Green Tomatoes,” has died at age 78. The Church Studio in Oklahoma, where he was a visitor and his wife ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — We're saying goodbye to a friend. Lulu Roman has died. She was 78. Lulu was a gospel singer, comedian, and one of the stars of the show "Hee Haw." For years, Lulu would come here to ...

(Gray News) – Lulu Roman, an actress and singer on the sketch comedy show “Hee Haw,” died Wednesday at age 78, according to reports. Variety reports that no cause of death was immediately given. Roman ...

What happens when you take Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, steep it in war-weary America’s longing for simpler times, and throw in top country music stars for good measure? You get hee-hee hee-hee-hee haw ...

“Hee Haw” cast member Lulu Roman is dead at 78. Her son Damon Roman told the Hollywood Reporter his mom died Wednesday in Washington State, where she’d been living for the past seven months. Roman was ...

Gailard Sartain on the set of "Roadie" in 1980. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Gailard Sartain, the character actor best known for his role in “The Buddy Holly Story” and his work on variety ...

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Roman – who was born Bertha Louise Hable in 1946 – was dropped off at an orphan facility in Dallas. A thyroid condition caused her to be overweight, and she was ...