Art Galt

Arthur "Art" Galt is the secondary antagonist in the 1982 film Rambo: First Blood.

He is portrayed by Jack Starrett.

Biography
Galt is one of the deputies of the town of Hope, Washington. Galt is even more brutal than the film's main antagonist, Will Teasle, and is the only person who dies in the entire movie. Galt is seen as a sadistic control freak that is willing to abuse his power to show people he doesn't like who's boss.

When Will Teasle arrests unstable Green Beret John Rambo, Galt is supposed to take care of Rambo and book him. Galt, who has a particular dislike for hippies and drifters, at first harasses Rambo by threatening to break his hand. Despite the disapproval from one of his other deputies, however, Galt quickly moves up to physical abuse and beats Rambo with his nightstick, "cleaning" Rambo with a high pressure fire hose and prepares to shave him without any shaving cream. When Rambo experiences a horrible flashback of the Vietnam War where he was tortured in a prison camp, Rambo's fragile mental state shatters and he fights his way out of the station and runs off into the forest. The deputy decides to take his revenge for the humiliation by trying to kill Rambo with a sniper rifle from a helicopter. Teasle tries to warn his deputy that they need Rambo alive, but Galt doesn't listen, and he fires repeatedly at Rambo. When the pilot attempts to fly away before Galt can kill Rambo, Galt threatens the pilot's life if he doesn't stay straight. Terrified for his life, Rambo is forced to throw a large rock at the helicopter. Because Galt unbuckled his safety belt to get a better shot, when the helicopter loses control, Galt tumbles out of the helicopter and falls to his death into the rocky gorge a hundred feet below.