Jack Starrett
Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr.
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Raised in Refugio, Texas, Starrett spent his early years laboring in oil fields before moving to Hollywood, where he began a dual career as actor and director. He became widely recognized for his comic turn as Gabby Johnson in Mel Brooks’s satirical western Blazing Saddles, a film later honored by the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, and for portraying the hard-edged police officer Ar…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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