ric response of anything at the festival.  It attracted considerable attention at the time, though it was later  lost  for many years until Kernochan was able to obtain rights to the film after tracking down the owner.

After making a record  Bad, but Not Evil,  he scored an acting role in the pilot for  Kojak.  Gortner went on to have roles as crazed drug dealers, outlaws, fake psychics and preachers in B movies and on television. In 1974's  Earthquake,  he was the unhinged grocery store manager turned National Guardsman Sgt. Jody Joad.

He went on to appear in movies including Milton Katselas' 1969  When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?,  in which he played a troubled Vietnam veteran. The drama co-starred Candy Clark, to whom he was briefly married the year the film came out.

His other film appearances included  Viva Knieval,!   Bobbie Joe and the Outlaw,   The Survivalist,   Starcrash  and Walter Hill's  Wild Bill.  During the '70s and 1980s he appeared on TV series including  Police Story,   Airwolf,   T.J. Hooker,   Street Hawk,   Otherworld,   The A Team,   Fantasy Island  and  Falcon Crest,  as a corrupt psychic.

His fifth wife, Susan Magestro, survives him.