Jackie Gayle, the veteran send banana who opened Las Vegas shows for such lumari as Frank Satra, Tony Bent and Ta Turner and earned his own fame for character rol such films as "T Men," has died.
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JACKIE GAYLE, 76; STAND-UP COMIC, MOVIE AND TV CHARACTER ACTOR
Jackie Gayle, the veteran send banana who opened Las Vegas shows for such lumari as Frank Satra, Tony Bent and Ta Turner and earned his own fame for character rol such films as “T Men, ” has died. A stand-up edian nightclubs for 40 years, Gayle performed on the Playboy Club circu and major Las Vegas showrooms at Caars Palace, the Hilton and other rorts, openg for many stars, cludg not only Satra, Bent and Turner, but Tom Jon, Pl Anka, Pearl Bailey, Patti Page and Ed held the stage small saloons across the untry, and his reputatn earned him rol as himself or as a fictnal edian a handful of movi, cludg Woody Allen’s “Broadway Danny Rose. ”Gayle was 61 when Barry Levson st him his popular 1987 edy, “T Men, ” starrg Richard Dreyfs and Danny DeVo as warrg alumum-sidg salmen.