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Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds

Birthday: 1936-02-11 | Place of Birth: Lansing, Michigan, USA

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, director, and producer, considered a sex symbol and icon of American popular culture. Reynolds first rose to prominence when he starred in several different television series such as Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966), and Dan August (1970–1971). Although Reynolds had leading roles in such films as Navajo Joe (1966), his breakthrough role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972). Reynolds played the leading role – often a lovable rogue – in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Semi-Tough (1977), The End (1978), Hooper (1978), Starting Over (1979), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), Sharky's Machine (1981), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and Cannonball Run II (1984), several of which he directed himself. He was nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Reynolds was voted the world's number one box office star for five consecutive years (from 1978 to 1982) in the annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, a record he shares with Bing Crosby. After a number of box office failures, Reynolds returned to television, starring in the sitcom Evening Shade (1990–1994), which won him a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His performance as high-minded pornographer Jack Horner in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997) brought him renewed critical attention, earning him another Golden Globe (for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture), with nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burt Reynolds, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Defining Moments

as    Chester

2018
The Last Movie Star

as    Vic Edwards

2017
Apple of My Eye

as    Charlie

2016
Shangri-La Suite

as    Narrator

2016
Pocket Listing

as    Ron Glass

2016
Hollow Creek

as    Seagrass Lambert

2014
A Magic Christmas

as    Buster (voice)

2011
Not Another Not Another Movie

as    C.J. Waters

2011
Reel Love

as    Wade Whitman

2009
2008
Delgo

as    Delgo's Father (voice)

2008
A Bunch of Amateurs

as    Jefferson Steel

2008
2008
Deal

as    Tommy Vinson

2006
Cloud 9

as    Billy Cole

2006
End Game

as    General Montgomery

2006
Grilled

as    Goldbluth

2006
Broken Bridges

as    Jake Delton

2005
The Longest Yard

as    Coach Nate Scarborough

2005
The Dukes of Hazzard

as    Jefferson Davis 'Boss' Hogg

2005
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman

as    Narrator (voice)

2005
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2004
Without a Paddle

as    Del Knox

2004
The Librarians

as    Irish

2003
Hard Ground

as    John 'Chill' McKay

2003
Gumball 3000: The Movie

as    Self (voice)

2002
Snapshots

as    Larry Goldberg

2001
Driven

as    Carl Henry