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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-02-11 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Lansing, Michigan, USA

Burt Reynolds

Biography:

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.

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Known For

Acting

2023

2022

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)

2021

Defining Moments as Chester

2020

I Am Burt Reynolds as Self (archive footage)

2019

An Innocent Kiss as Grandpa Barnes

2018

The Last Movie Star as Vic Edwards

2017

Apple of My Eye as Charlie
Shadow Fighter as Paddy Grier
Henri as George Duncan
In Sanity, Florida as Burt Reynolds, retired movie star

2016

Hollow Creek as Seagrass Lambert
Pocket Listing as Ron Glass
The Bandit as Self
Shangri-La Suite as Narrator

2015

2014

Category 5 as Pops
A Magic Christmas as Buster the Dog (voice)
Hamlet & Hutch as Papa Hutch

2011

Reel Love as Wade Whitman
Paul Williams Still Alive as Self (archive footage)

2010

2009

Archer as Burt Reynolds (voice)

2008

Delgo as Delgo's Father (voice)
Deal as Tommy Vinson
A Bunch of Amateurs as Jefferson Steel

2007

Randy & the Mob as Elmore Culpepper (uncredited)
Burn Notice as Paul Anderson

2006

Grilled as Goldbluth
End Game as General Montgomery
Broken Bridges as Jake Delton
Cloud 9 as Billy Cole
Forget About It as Sam LeFleur

2005

The Dukes of Hazzard as Jefferson Davis 'Boss' Hogg
The Longest Yard as Coach Nate Scarborough
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May as Self - Narrator (voice)
Freddie as Carl
American Dad! as Senator Buckingham (voice)
My Name Is Earl as Chubby
The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
Robot Chicken as J.J. McClure / Burt Reynolds (voice)

2004

Without a Paddle as Del Knox

2003

Gumball 3000: The Movie as Self (voice)
Hard Ground as John 'Chill' McKay
Duck Dodgers as Royal Serpenti (voice)

2002

Time of the Wolf as Archie McGregor
Johnson County War as Hunt Lawton
The Hollywood Sign as Kage Mulligan
Snapshots as Larry Goldberg
Miss Lettie and Me as Samuel Madison

2001

Driven as Carl Henry
Tempted as Charlie LeBlanc
Hotel as The Flamenco Manager

2000

Waterproof as Eli Zeal
The Crew as Joey 'Bats' Pistella
The Last Producer as Sonny Wexler
Ed as Russ Burton
Medal of Honor as Self - Host
Founding Fathers as Patrick Henry (voice)

1999

Hard Time: Hostage Hotel as Det. Logan McQueen
Mystery, Alaska as Judge Walter Burns
Pups as Daniel Bender
Stringer as Wolko
The Hunter's Moon as Clayton Samuels
Hard Time: The Premonition as Det. Logan McQueen

1998

Hard Time as Det. Logan McQueen
Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business as Mentor / CIA Deputy Director / GR88
Jackie Chan: My Story as (archive footage)
The King of Queens as Coach Walcott

1997

Bean as General Newton
Boogie Nights as Jack Horner
Meet Wally Sparks as Lenny Spencer
Big City Blues as Connor
Crazy Six as Dakota
King of the Hill as M.F. Thatherton (voice)
Taff as self

1996

Frankenstein and Me as Les Williams
Striptease as David Dilbeck
Citizen Ruth as Blaine Gibbons
Raven as Jerome 'Raven' Katz
Mad Dog Time as 'Wacky' Jacky Jackson
The Maddening as Scudder
The Cherokee Kid as Otter Bob the Mountain Man
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest

1995

Cybill as Burt Reynolds
Amazing Grace as Josiah Carey
Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self - Guest
Hope and Gloria as Burt Reynolds

1994

WWE WrestleMania X as Ring Announcer
Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular as Self (archive footage)

1993

Cop & ½ as Nick McKenna
The Man from Left Field as Jack Robinson
The X-Files as Mr. Burt
Raw as Burt Reynolds

1992

The Player as Burt Reynolds
The Larry Sanders Show as Burt Reynolds

1991

1990

Modern Love as Colonel Frank Parker
Evening Shade as Wood Newton

1989

All Dogs Go to Heaven as Charlie B. Barkin (voice)
Physical Evidence as Joe Paris
Breaking In as Ernie Mullins
The Final Season as Narrator
B.L. Stryker as B.L. Stryker

1988

Jackie Gleason: The Great One as Self - Bandit (archive footage)
Switching Channels as John L. Sullivan IV

1987

Malone as Richard Malone
Rent-a-Cop as Tony Church
Out of This World as Troy Garland
Dolly as Self

1986

Heat as Nick 'Mex' Escalante
Uphill All the Way as Gambler (uncredited)

1985

Stick as Stick
Sherman's March as Himself
The Golden Girls as Burt Reynolds (uncredited)

1984

Cannonball Run II as J.J. McClure
City Heat as Mike Murphy

1983

The Man Who Loved Women as David Fowler
Stroker Ace as Stroker Ace
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 as The Real Bandit

1982

Best Friends as Richard Babson
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd

1981

The Cannonball Run as J.J. McClure
Sharky's Machine as Tom Sharky
Paternity as Buddy Evans

1980

Rough Cut as Jack Rhodes

1979

Starting Over as Phil Potter

1978

The End as Wendell Sonny Lawson
Hooper as Sonny Hooper
Mickey's 50 as Self

1977

Smokey and the Bandit as Bo 'Bandit' Darville
Semi-Tough as Billy Clyde Puckett
CHiPs as Himself (uncredited)

1976

Silent Movie as Self
Gator as Gator McKlusky
Nickelodeon as Buck Greenway

1975

At Long Last Love as Michael Oliver Pritchard III
Hustle as Lt. Phil Gaines
Lucky Lady as Walker
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974

The Longest Yard as Paul Crewe
Dinah! as Self

1973

First Aid Action as narrator
White Lightning as Bobby "Gator" McKlusky
Shamus as Shamus McCoy
Fade In as Rob

1972

Deliverance as Lewis Medlock
Fuzz as Det. Steve Carella

1971

The Pet Set as Self

1970

Run, Simon, Run as Simon Zuniga
Skullduggery as Douglas Temple
Hunters Are for Killing as L. G. Floran
Dan August as Det. Lt. Dan August

1969

Shark as Caine
Sam Whiskey as Sam Whiskey
100 Rifles as Yaqui Joe Herrera
Impasse as Pat Morrison
Love, American Style as Stanley Dunbar

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Gentle Ben as Pilot
The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Various Characters
The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters

1966

Navajo Joe as Joe
Hawk as Detective Lt. John Hawk

1965

Operation C.I.A. as Mark Andrews, CIA
The F.B.I. as Michael Murtaugh
Branded as Red Hand
The F.B.I. as John Duquesne

1964

Flipper as Al Bardeman
12 O'Clock High as Tech. Sgt. Vern Chapman

1962

1961

Angel Baby as Hoke Adams
The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host

1960

Escape to Sonoita as Bill Davis
Route 66 as Tommy
The Aquanauts as Jimmy
The Blue Angels as Corman

1959

The Velvet Alley as The Actor
The Twilight Zone as Rocky Rhodes
Riverboat as Ben Frazer
Johnny Ringo as Tad Stuart

1958

Naked City as Young Man

1957

Perry Mason as Chuck Blair

1956

1955

Gunsmoke as Quint

1954

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

1950

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee

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With Friends Like These as Jackson Hammond

Production

1993

The Man from Left Field as Executive Producer

1978

Hooper as Producer

1975

Hustle as Executive Producer

Directing

2000

The Last Producer as Director

1998

Hard Time as Director

1993

1990

Evening Shade as Director

1989

B.L. Stryker as Director

1985

Stick as Director
Amazing Stories as Director

1981

Sharky's Machine as Director

1978

The End as Director

1976

Gator as Director

1966

Hawk as Director