Burt Reynolds (1936)

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Burt Reynolds
General Information
Birth Name	Burton Leon Reynolds
Gender	Male
Birth Place	Lansing, Michigan
Birth Date	February 11, 1936
Death	September 6, 2018
Occupation	Actor, Director, Producer, Writer
Years Active	1959–2018

Background

The late Burt Reynolds ( b. 11 February 1936 - d. 6 September 2018 ) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He appeared in live action theater, television, and cinematic roles; and voice acting performances.

Reynolds was well known for his deep stern voice, distinctive laugh, and trademark mustache. He was considered a male sex symbol in the 1970s and a major star during this period.

Reynolds was best known for his performances in Deliverance; White Lightning; The Longest Yard; Smokey and the Bandit; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; All Dogs Go to Heaven; and Boogie Nights.

He also starred as the laidback former football player turned reluctant coach Woodrow "Wood" Newton, the central focus character in the popular TV sitcom Evening Shade for which he won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy.

Filmography

• Flight (1958) 2 episodes
• M Squad (1959) 1 episode
• Schlitz Playhouse (1959) 1 episode
• The Lawless Years (1959) 1 episode
• Pony Express (1959) 1 episode
• Riverboat (1959-60) 20 episodes
• Playhouse 90 (1959-60) 2 episodes
• Johnny Ringo (1960) 1 episode
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) 1 episode
• Lock Up (1960) 1 episode
• The Blue Angels (1960-61) 2 episodes
• The Aquanauts (1960-61) 2 episodes
• Ripcord (1961) 1 episode
• Michael Shayne (1961) 1 episode
• Zane Grey Theater (1961) 1 episode
• Angel Baby (1961)
• The Brothers Brannagan (1961) 1 episode
• Armored Command (1961)
• Naked City (1961) 1 episode
• Everglades (1961-62) 2 episodes
• Route 66 (1962) 1 episode
• Perry Mason (1962) 1 episode
• Gunsmoke (1962-65) 50 episodes
• The Twilight Zone (1963) 1 episode
• Operation C.I.A. (1965)
• Branded (1965) 1 episode
• Flipper (1965) 2 episodes
• 12 O'Clock High (1965) 2 episodes
• The F.B.I. (1965-68) 2 episodes
• Navajo Joe (1966)
• Hawk (1966) 17 episodes
• Gentle Ben (1967) 1 episode
• Premiere (1968) 1 episode
• Fade-In (1968)
• 100 Rifles (1969)
• The Match Game (1969) 10 episodes
• Sam Whiskey (1969)
• Impasse (1969)
• Shark (1969)
• Love, American Style (1970) 1 episode
• Skullduggery (1970)
• Hunters Are for Killing (1970)
• Run, Simon, Run (1970)
• The Trouble with Women (1970)
• Dan August (1970-71) series regular
• The Hollywood Squares (1970-72) 10 episodes
• Fuzz (1972)
• The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1972) 2 episodes
• Deliverance (1972)
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
• Shamus (1973)
• Burt Reynolds' Late Show (1973)
• Dinah Shore: In Search of the Ideal Man (1973)
• The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
• Burt and the Girls (1973)
• White Lightning (1973)
• The Longest Yard (1974)
• At Long Last Love (1975)
• W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
• Lucky Lady (1975)
• Hustle (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• Gator (1976)
• Nickelodeon (1976)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
• Superstunt (1977)
• Semi-Tough (1977)
• The End (1978)
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1978) 1 episode
• Mickey's 50 (1978)
• Hooper (1978)
• Starting Over (1979)
• Dan August: The Jealousy Factor (1980)
• Dan August: Once Is Never Enough (1980)
• Dan August: Murder, My Friend (1980)
• Rough Cut (1980)
• Don Siegel: Last of the Independents (1980)
• Saturday Night Live (1980) 1 episode
• Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
• Superstunt II (1980)
• The Cannonball Run (1981)
• Paternity (1981)
• Sharky's Machine (1981)
• Six Pack (1982)
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
• Best Friends (1982)
• Stroker Ace (1983)
• Dom DeLuise and Friends (1983) ? episodes
• James Bond: The First 21 Years (1983)
• Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)
• The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour (1983) 1 episode
• This Is Your Life (1983) 1 episode
• The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
• The New Mike Hammer (1984) 1 episode
• Cannonball Run II (1984)
• All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds (1984)
• City Heat (1984)
• Stick (1985)
• Southern Voices, American Dreams (1985)
• Sherman's March (1985)
• All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985)
• Uphill All the Way (1986)
• Josh, the Logan Legend (1986)
• The Golden Girls (1986) 1 episode
• Heat (1986)
• Shattered If Your Kid's on Drugs (1986)
• Malone (1987)
• Rent-a-Cop (1987)
• The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson (1987)
• Win, Lose or Draw (1987-89) series regular
• Out of This World (1987-91) series regular
• Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988)
• Switching Channels (1988)
• Physical Evidence (1989)
• Breaking In (1989)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
• B.L. Stryker (1989-90) 12 episodes
• Modern Love (1990)
• Evening Shade (1990-94) series regular
• A Party for Richard Pryor (1991)
• The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show 2 (1991)
• Benny Hill: The World's Favorite Clown (1991)
• Burt Reynolds' Conversation With (1991-92) series regular
• Class Clowns (1992)
• The Player (1992)
• Burt Reynolds' Conversations with... (1992)
• Cop & ½ (1993)
• Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993) 1 episode
• Wind in the Wire (1993)
• The Larry Sanders Show (1993) 1 episode
• The Man from Left Field (1993)
• The Great Battles of the Civil War (1994)
• Amazing Grace (1995) 1 episode
• Hope & Gloria (1995) 1 episode
• Cybill (1995) 1 episode
• Biography (1995-02) 3 episodes
• Citizen Ruth (1996)
• The Maddening (1996)
• Striptease (1996)
• Frankenstein and Me (1996)
• Mad Dog Time (1996)
• Raven (1996)
• The Cherokee Kid (1996)
• Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
• Bean (1997)
• A Conversation with Burt Reynolds (1997)
• Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1997) 1 episode
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Big City Blues (1997)
• Crazy Six (1997)
• King of the Hill (1997) 1 episode
• Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms (1998)
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998)
• Hard Time (1998)
• Bravo Profiles (1999) 1 episode
• Celebrity Profile (1999) 1 episode
• Hard Time: The Premonition (1999)
• Pups (1999)
• The Hunter's Moon (1999)
• Stringer (1999)
• Mystery, Alaska (1999)
• Hard Time: Hostage Hotel (1999)
• Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business (1999)
• Waterproof (2000)
• Founding Fathers (2000) 4 episodes
• The Crew (2000)
• The Last Producer (2000)
• Driven (2001)
• Tempted (2001)
• Hotel (2001)
• The Hollywood Sign (2001)
• Auf Herz und Nieren (2001)
• History vs. Hollywood (2001) 6 episodes
• Emeril (2001) 1 episode
• Inside the Actors Studio (2001) 1 episode
• Snapshots (2002)
• The X-Files (2002) 1 episode
• Time of the Wolf (2002)
• Rites of Autumn: The Story of College Football (2002)
• Johnson County War (2002)
• Founding Brothers (2002)
• Miss Lettie and Me (2002)
• Hard Ground (2003)
• Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
• 4th and Life (2003)
• Reel Classics with Burt Reynolds (2003)
• The Librarians (2003)
• Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003)
• Ed (2003-04) 2 episodes
• Without a Paddle (2004)
• The King of Queens (2005) 1 episode
• Robot Chicken (2005) 1 episode
• The Longest Yard (2005)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005)
• Legend of Frosty the Snowman (2005)
• Duck Dodgers (2005) 1 episode
• The Contender (2005-06) 4 episodes
• Cloud 9 (2006)
• End Game (2006)
• Freddie (2006) 1 episode
• Forget About It (2006)
• Grilled (2006)
• The World's Greatest Actor (2006)
• Broken Bridges (2006)
• My Name Is Earl (2006-09) 3 episodes
• In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
• Randy and the Mob (2007)
• Celebrity Rides: Burt Builds a Bandit (2007)
• Deal (2008)
• Delgo (2008)
• A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)
• 30 for 30 (2009) 1 episode
• Hollywood Moments (2009)
• Hollywood's Top Ten (2010) 1 episode
• Burn Notice (2010) 1 episode
• American Dad! (2011) 1 episode
• Not Another Not Another Movie (2011)
• Reel Love (2011)
• Archer (2012) 1 episode
• Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2012) 1 episode
• Fast N' Loud (2013) 2 episodes
• Category 5 (2014)
• Hamlet & Hutch (2014)
• A Magic Christmas (2014)
• Pocket Listing (2015)
• Bizarre Transmissions from the Bermuda Triangle (2015) 1 episode
• Hitting the Breaks (2016) 10 episodes
• The Bandit (2016)
• Hollow Creek (2016)
• Elbow Grease (2016)
• Shadow Fighter (2016)
• Dog Years (2016)
• John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs (2017)
• And Then There Was Light (2017)

Trivia

• He was a minority stakeholder in the Tampa Bay Bandits from 1982 to 1986. The Tampa Bay Bandits was an American Football League team which was widely assumed was named in honor of Reynolds' movie role of "Smokey and the Bandit". In actuality, the team's name came from the beloved dog of the manager's daughter as Reynolds had become a shareholder after the team was named.

Quotes

• "My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."

• "Sometimes I'm surprised that people even know who I am."

• "I realized very quickly that the public has a perfect right to tell you what they want to see."

• "I'm going to retire hopefully like Cary Grant did. I'll be on stage telling a story, everyone's going to applaud and laugh, and then I'll drop like a rock."

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