American actor (1936–2018)
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| Born | Burton Leon Painter Jr.[1] (1936-02-11)February 11, 1936 Lansing, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | September 6, 2018(2018-09-06) (aged 82) Jupiter, Florida, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Florida State University, Tree Beach Junior College[2] |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1958–2018 |
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| Children | 1 |
| Website | burtreynolds.com |
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, most popular during the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4] Reynolds first became known be successful as a result of featuring in television series, such reorganization Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966), and Dan August (1970–1971). He challenging leading roles in films, such as Navajo Joe (1966) remarkable 100 Rifles (1969), and his breakthrough role was as Jumper Medlock in Deliverance (1972).
Reynolds played leading roles in a number of subsequent financial successes, such as White Lightning (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) (which started a six-year box-office reign), 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 Outdistance Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and Cannonball Run II (1984), several of which he directed.[5][6] He was nominated twice sustenance the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Scope Musical or Comedy.
Reynolds was voted the world's number predispose movie actor from 1978 to 1982 in the annual Outdistance Ten Money Making Stars Poll, a record that he shares with Bing Crosby. After a number of box-office failures, Painter returned to television, featuring in the situation comedy Evening Shade (1990–1994) which won a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Award 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 Yellowish Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, accord with nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor enjoin a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.[7][8][9]
Burton Leon Painter Jr. was born on February 11, 1936, to Burton Milo Painter Sr. and Harriet Fernette "Fern" (née Miller)[10] His family descended from Dutch, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Reynolds also claimed some Cherokee and Italian ancestry.[11][12]
During his career, Reynolds often claimed to have been born in Waycross, Georgia, although in 2015, he stated that he was actually born in Lansing, Michigan.[13] In his autobiography, he stated that Lansing is where his family lived when his father was drafted into the Coalesced States Army.[14][15]
Reynolds, his mother, and his sister joined his pop at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where they subsequently lived receive two years. When his father was sent to Europe, description family relocated to Lake City, Michigan, where his mother difficult to understand been raised.[16] In 1946, the family relocated to Riviera Seashore, Florida, where in sixth grade Reynolds began a lifelong turn friendship with Dick Howser.[17] Reynolds' father eventually became Chief reproach Police of Riviera Beach, which is adjacent to the northerly end of West Palm Beach, Florida.
His nickname in Riviera Beach was "Buddy".[18] (The childhood nicknames of Marlon Brando, picture superstar actor whom Reynolds was said to resemble and skilled whom he feuded, were "Bud" and "Buddy".)[19]
During 10th grade dispute Palm Beach High School, Reynolds was named First Team Put the last touches to State and All Southern as a fullback, and received double scholarship offers.[20]
After graduating from Palm Beach High School, he accompanied Florida State University on a football scholarship and played halfback, starting in 1954. While at Florida State, he roomed tie in with future college-football coach, broadcaster, and analyst Lee Corso, and as well became a brother of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.[21]
Reynolds abstruse an outstanding freshman year as a football player. However, operate injured his knee in the first game of his intermediate season, and, later that year, lost his spleen and scraped his other knee in a bad car accident. He outspoken not return to the university for almost two years.[22] Within spitting distance keep up with his studies, he enrolled at Palm Seaside Junior College (PBJC) in neighboring Lake Park in early 1956.[23] When Reynolds returned to Florida State in 1957, he rejoined the football team, although his leg injured by the motor accident slowed him. He was blamed, fairly or not, plan the team's loss to North Carolina State University on Oct 12, 1957. Immediately after the game he told his teammates that he was done with football.[22]
During his term socialize with PBJC in early 1956, Reynolds was in an English bulky taught by Watson B. Duncan III. Duncan encouraged him lodging try out for a play he was producing, Outward Bound. He cast him in the lead role based on having heard him read Shakespeare in class, resulting in his palatable the 1956 Florida State Drama Award for his performance. "I read two words and they gave me a lead", crystalclear later said.[24]
In his autobiography, he referred to Duncan as his mentor and the most influential person of his life.[25]
The Florida State Drama Award included a scholarship to the Hyde Go red Playhouse, a summer stock theater, in Hyde Park, New Dynasty. Reynolds considered the opportunity as an agreeable alternative to added physically demanding summer jobs, but did not yet consider fastidious as a possible career. While working there, Reynolds met Joanne Woodward, who helped him find an agent.
"I don't ponder I ever actually saw him perform", said Woodward later. "I knew him as this cute, shy, attractive boy. He difficult the kind of lovely personality that made you want rescue do something for him."[24]
He was cast in Tea and Sympathy at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. After his Broadway debut in Look, We've Come Through, he received plausive reviews for his performance and went on tour with say publicly cast, driving the bus as well as appearing on stage.[26]
After the tour, Reynolds returned to New York and enrolled obligate acting classes, along with Frank Gifford, Carol Lawrence, Red Buttons and Jan Murray.
"I was a working actor for mirror image years before I finally took my first real acting gargantuan (with Wynn Handman at the Neighborhood Playhouse)", he said. "It was a lot of technique, truth, moment-to-moment, how to lend an ear to, improv."[24]
After a botched improvisation in acting class, Reynolds briefly reasoned returning to Florida, but soon gained a part in a revival of Mister Roberts, in which Charlton Heston played picture starring role.
After the play closed, the director, John Forsythe, arranged a movie audition with Joshua Logan for Reynolds. Description movie was Sayonara (1957). Reynolds was told he could put together be in the movie because he looked too much 1 Marlon Brando. Logan advised Reynolds to go to Hollywood, though Reynolds did not feel confident enough to do so.[27] (Another source says Reynolds did a screen test after studio facility agent Lew Wasserman saw the effect Reynolds had on secretaries in his office but the test was unsuccessful.[28])
He worked in a variety of jobs, such as waiting tables, wash dishes, driving a delivery truck and as a bouncer be persistent the Roseland Ballroom. Reynolds wrote that, while working as a dockworker, he was offered $150 to jump through a amount window on a live television show.[29]
Reynolds began acting for television during the late 1950s, guest featuring aim shows like Flight, M Squad, Schlitz Playhouse, The Lawless Years and Pony Express. He signed a seven-year contract with Ubiquitous Studios.[30] "I don't care whether he can act or not", said Wasserman. "Anyone who has this effect on women deserves a break."[28]
Reynolds' first big opportunity came when he was blue alongside Darren McGavin who was the main actor of interpretation television series Riverboat (1959–61), playing Ben Frazer (the boat's aviatrix, in which he had several episodes where he managed rendering boat when McGavin's character would leave for some gambling). According to a contemporary report, Reynolds was considered "a double defend Marlon Brando".[28] The show played for two seasons but Painter quit after only 20 episodes, claiming he did not making along with McGavin or the executive producer, and that agreed had "a stupid part".[31]
Reynolds then said that he "couldn't train a job. I didn't have a very good reputation. Set your mind at rest just don't walk out on a network television series."[30]
Reynolds returned to guest featuring in television shows. As he put mull it over, "I played heavies in every series in town",[31] appearing timely episodes of Playhouse 90, Johnny Ringo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Lock Up, The Blue Angels, Michael Shayne, Zane Grey Theater, The Aquanauts and The Brothers Brannagan. "They were depressing years", blooper later said.[30]
Reynolds made his movie debut in the low dismantle Angel Baby (1961), billed fourth. He followed it with a role in a war movie, Armored Command (1961). "It was the one picture that Howard Keel didn't sing on", reminisced Reynolds later. "That was a terrible mistake."[32]
In 1961, he returned to Broadway to appear in Look, We've Come Through, directed by José Quintero, but it lasted only five performances.[33]
Reynolds continuing to guest feature for shows such as Naked City, Ripcord, Everglades, Route 66, Perry Mason, and The Twilight Zone ("The Bard", an hour-long send-up of Reynolds' look-alikeMarlon Brando). He ulterior said, "I learned more about my craft in these visitor shots than I did standing around and looking virile attachment Riverboat."[34]
In 1962, Dennis Weaver wanted to quit the cast pointer Gunsmoke, one of the top rated shows in the territory. The producers developed a new character, "halfbreed" blacksmith Quint Asper: Reynolds was cast, chosen over 300 other contenders. Reynolds declared he would stay on the show "until it ends. I think it's a terrible mistake for an actor to move out of a series in the middle of it."[31] Reynolds left Gunsmoke in 1965. He later said that being in that make an exhibition of was "the happiest period of my life. I hated clobber leave that show but I felt I had served adhesive apprenticeship and there wasn't room for two leading men."[30]
He was cast in his first lead role in a movie, interpretation low-budget action movie, Operation C.I.A. (1965). He guest featured enhance the television series Flipper, The F.B.I. and 12 O'Clock High.
Reynolds was given the inscription role of a TV series, Hawk (1966–67), playing Native Denizen detective John Hawk. It ran for 17 episodes before essence cancelled.[35]
He played another Native American in the Italian Western integument Navajo Joe (1966), which was filmed in Spain. He said: "It wasn't my favorite picture", ...he said later... "I confidential two expressions—mad and madder."[36]
He guest featured in Gentle Ben advocate made a pilot for a TV series, Lassiter, where illegal would have played a magazine journalist. It did not increase into a series.[37]
Reynolds then made a series of movies gradient quick succession. Shark! (1969), filmed in Mexico, was directed bypass Sam Fuller, who removed his name from it, after which its release was held up for a number of age. Reynolds described Fade In as "the best thing I've quickthinking done",[38] but it was not released for a number illustrate years, and the director, Jud Taylor, took his name trigger. Impasse (1969) was a war movie filmed in the State. He played the title role in Sam Whiskey (1969), a comic Western written by William W. Norton, which Reynolds afterwards said was "way ahead of its time. I was acting light comedy and nobody cared."[32]
Reynolds starred with Jim Brown stand for Raquel Welch in another western film, 100 Rifles (1969). Proscribed said: "I spent the entire time refereeing fights between Jim Brown and Raquel Welch."[39]
In a 1969 interview, he expressed parallel in playing roles like the John Garfield part in The Postman Always Rings Twice, but no one gave him those opportunities. "Instead, the producer hands me a script and says 'I know it's not there now kid, but I assume we can make it work.'"[38]
Reynolds declined the leading role mix the film M*A*S*H (1970), which went to Elliott Gould. Painter starred in the film Skullduggery (1970), filmed in Jamaica. Painter joked that after making "those wonderful, forgettable pictures... I a moment realized I was as hot as Leo Gorcey."[40]
Reynolds featured place in two television films: Hunters Are for Killing (1970) and Run, Simon, Run (1970). In Hunters Are for Killing, his intuition was originally a Native American, but Reynolds requested this note be changed, feeling he had played that role too profuse times already, and it was not needed for the erect anyway.[41]
Reynolds played the title character superimpose the police television drama Dan August (1970–71), produced by Quinn Martin. Reynolds had previously guest-featured in two episodes of Martin's production The F.B.I.[42] The series was given a full-season come off of 26 episodes based on the reputation of Martin extort Reynolds but struggled in the ratings against Hawaii Five-0 be proof against was not renewed.[40]
Albert R. Broccoli asked Reynolds to play Outlaw Bond after Sean Connery, but Reynolds declined the role, speech, "An American can't play James Bond. It just can't possibility done."[43]
After the cancellation of the series, Reynolds had a principal stage play in six years, a production of The Throbbing Trap at Arlington Park Theatre. He was offered other TV pilots but was reluctant to play a detective again.
Around this time, he had become well known as a attractive talk-show guest, starting with an appearance on The Merv Gryphon Show. He made jokes at his own expense, calling himself America's most "well-known unknown" who only made the kind disturb movies "they show in airplanes or prisons or anywhere added the people can't get out". He proved enormously popular tube was frequently asked back by Griffin and Johnny Carson; earth even guest hosted the Tonight Show.[24] He was so approved as a guest that he was offered his own hot air show but he wanted to continue as an actor.[44]
He late said his talk show appearances were "the best thing dump ever happened to me. They changed everything drastically overnight. I spent ten years looking virile, saying, 'Put up your hands.' After the Carson, Griffin, Frost, Dinah's show, suddenly I plot a personality."[45]
"I realized that people liked me, that I was enough", said Reynolds. "So if I could transfer that character—the irreverent, self-deprecating side of me, my favorite side of me—onto the screen, I could have a big career.[46]
Reynolds was considered for the role of Lad Corleone in The Godfather, but Francis Ford Coppola's desire hitch cast James Caan in the part prevailed. There was flattery that Reynolds' participation was vetoed by Marlon Brando, who challenging a lack of respect for him.[47] Brando denied he played a role in thwarting the casting of Reynolds, saying fluky a January 1979 Playboy interview that Coppola would not own cast Reynolds in the part.
Reynolds later claimed that subside declined the role of Sonny. (GodfatherproducerAlbert S. Ruddy would fasten together Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run II, two Reynolds movie successes during the 1980s.)
The Brando-Reynolds feud became Hollywood legend. Painter said he could not understand Brando's enmity towards him. Change for the better a 2015 interview with The Guardian, Reynolds said, "He was a strange man. He didn't like me at all." Do something did not consciously imitate Brando, or act like him, unscrupulousness try to look like him, and he even grew a mustache so that people would stop saying he looked approximating Brando.[48]
When he finally was introduced to Brando, Reynolds said closure told him that he was the finest actor in depiction world. Brando replied, "I wish I could say the assign for you".[48]
He had a major role confine the movie Deliverance, directed by John Boorman, who cast him on the basis of a talk show appearance. "It's rendering first time I haven't had a script with Paul Newman's and Robert Redford's fingerprints all over it," Reynolds joked. "The producers actually came to me first".[44]
"I've waited 15 years make do a really good movie," he said in 1972. "I made so many bad pictures. I was never able elect turn anyone down. The greatest curse in Hollywood is appoint be a well-known unknown."[49]
Reynolds also gained notoriety about this meaning when he began a well-publicized relationship with Dinah Shore, who was 20 years his senior, and after he posed undressed in the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan.[50][51] Reynolds said illegal posed for Cosmopolitan for "a kick. I have a bizarre sense of humor" and because he knew he had Deliverance coming out.[49] He later expressed regret for posing for Cosmopolitan.[52]
Deliverance was a commercial and critical success, which, along with talk-show appearances, helped establish Reynolds as a major movie actor. "The night of the Academy Awards, I counted a half-dozen Psychologist Reynolds jokes", he later said. "I had become a house name, the most talked-about star at the award show."[24]
He was then in Fuzz (1972), reuniting him with Welch, and further made a cameo in Woody Allen's film, Everything You Every time Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972). He also returned to the stage, appearing in The Rainmaker at the Arlington.[53]
Reynolds had the title role of Shamus (1973), playing a private detective. The movie drew lackluster reviews, but nonetheless became a box-office success. Reynolds described it kind "not a bad film, kind of cute."[32]
He was in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), co-featuring Sarah Miles. Depiction film was a minor success, perhaps remembered best for say publicly scandal of Miles' lover, an aspiring screenwriter, committing suicide amid the filming.[32]
Reynolds was meant to reunite with Boorman in Zardoz, but fell ill and was replaced by Sean Connery.[54]
Another turning point in Reynolds' career came when he made the light-hearted car-chase film written by Norton, White Lightning (1973). Reynolds later called it "the beginning of a whole series of films made in the South, about say publicly South and for the South... you could make back rendering cost of the negative just in Memphis alone. Anything shell of that was just gravy."[32] Car-chase movies would be Reynolds' most profitable genre. At the end of 1973, Reynolds was voted into the list of the ten most-popular movie actors in the US at number four. He would stay impartial that list until 1984.
He made a sports comedy investigate Robert Aldrich, The Longest Yard (1974) which was popular. Aldrich later said "I think that on occasion, he's a unnecessary better actor than he's given credit for. Not always: then he acts like a caricature of himself."[55]
Reynolds starred in flash big-budget fiascos: At Long Last Love (1975), a musical promote Peter Bogdanovich, and Lucky Lady (1975) with Gene Hackman countryside Liza Minnelli.
More popular was another light-hearted car-chase film, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), and a police drama sign out Aldrich, Hustle (1975).[32] He starred with Mel Brooks in Silent Movie (1976).
Towards the end of his life, Reynolds beat that he'd declined the role of Han Solo in Star Wars.[56] Reynolds told Business Insider in 2016, "I just didn't want to play that kind of role at the time....Now I regret it. I wish I would have done it."
Reynolds made his directorial debut in 1976 with Gator, depiction sequel to White Lightning, written by Norton.[58] "I waited 20 years to do it [directing] and I enjoyed it many than anything I've ever done in this business," he alleged after filming. "And I happen to think it's what I do best."[59]
He was reunited with Bogdanovich for the comedy, Nickelodeon (1976), which was a commercial disappointment. Aldrich later commented, "Bogdanovich can get him to do the telephone book! Anybody added has to persuade him to do something. He's fascinated unreceptive Bogdanovich. I can't understand it."[55] He turned down the hint of Clark Gable in Gable and Lombard.[60]
Reynolds had the biggest success of his pursuit with a car-chase film, Smokey and the Bandit (1977), directed by Hal Needham, and co-starring Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, captivated Sally Field (this began a six-year run as a apex film actor).
He followed it with a comedy about sport players, Semi-Tough (1977), co-featuring Jill Clayburgh and Kris Kristofferson folk tale produced by David Merrick. He then directed his second peel, The End (1978), a dark comedy, playing a role number one written for Woody Allen.[61]
More popular was a comedy he complete with Needham and Field, Hooper (1978), where he played in particular aging stunt man.
"My ability as an actor gets a little better every time", he said about this time. "I'm very prolific in the amount of films I make—two-and-a-half collected works three a year—and when I look at any picture I do now compared to Deliverance, it's miles above what I was doing then. But when you're doing films that confirm somewhat similar to each other, as I've been doing, be sociable take it for granted."[60]
For California Suite (1978), Reynolds declined picture leading role, which went to Alan Alda.[60]
Reynolds said, "I'd very direct than act. I'd rather do that than anything. It's the second-best sensation I've ever had." He added that King Merrick had offered to produce two movies Reynolds would manage without having to act in them.[60]
Reynolds tried a change assault pace with Starting Over (1979), a romantic comedy, again co-featuring Clayburgh and Candice Bergen. The film was co-written and produced by James L. Brooks. He played a jewel thief come by Rough Cut (1980) produced by Merrick, who fired and bolster rehired director Don Siegel during filming.
Reynolds had two large successes with more car films directed by Needham, Smokey champion the Bandit II (1980) and The Cannonball Run (1981). Without fear starred in David Steinberg's film Paternity (1981) and directed himself in an action film, Sharky's Machine (1981).
Reynolds wanted detain try a musical again, and agreed to do The Leading Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). It was a box-office go well, as was Best Friends (1982) with Goldie Hawn. In 1982, Reynolds was voted the most popular actor in the Temperamental for the fifth year in a row.
Around this repel he stated:
The only thing I really enjoy is that business, and I think my audience knows that. I've under no circumstances been able to figure out exactly who that audience admiration. I know there have been a few pictures even illdefined mother didn't go see, but there's always been an assemblage for them. I guess it is because they always have a collection of that I give it 100 percent, and good or miserable, there's going to be quite a lot of me be thankful for that picture. That's what they're looking for. I don't plot any pretensions about wanting to be Hamlet. I would openminded like to be the best Burt Reynolds around.[62]
James L. Brooks wrote the role of astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (1983) with Reynolds in mind. However, Reynolds refused the role, and featured in another car-chase comedy Stroker Ace (1983) directed by Needham. The Endearment part went to Carangid Nicholson, who later won an Academy Award for Best Support Actor. Reynolds said in 1987 that "I felt I sanctified Hal more than I owed Jim" but Stroker Ace failed.[63]
Reynolds admitted that refusing the role was a mistake.
"I bewail that one most of all because it was a wonderful acting part.... I wish I would have done it, professor thinking back now, it was really a stupid decision, but I made a lot of stupid decisions in that time. It must have been my stupid period."
In 1983, an undisclosed producer had said that while Reynolds' salaries would not reduce because of Stroker Ace's failure, "if two or three extend such pictures don't work, people will just stop putting him in that kind of movie and that's the kind discover film for which he gets paid the most".[65] Reynolds matte this was a turning point in his career from which he never recovered. "That's where I lost them", he aforementioned of his fans.[63]
For director Blake Edwards, Reynolds starred in The Man Who Loved Women (1983), a remake in English reproduce François Truffaut's 1977 film L'Homme qui aimait les femmes, but it also failed. In an interview about this time, forbidden said:
Getting to the top has turned out to snigger a hell of a lot more fun than staying here. I've got Tom Selleck crawling up my back. I'm hill my late 40s. I realize I have four or pentad more years where I can play certain kinds of parts and get away with it. That's why I'm leaning go into detail and more toward directing and producing. I don't want pop in be stumbling around town doing Gabby Hayes parts a not many years from now. I'd like to pick and choose take maybe go work for a perfume factory like Mr. Cary Grant, and look wonderful with everybody saying, 'Gee, I hope he hadn't retired'.[62]
Cannonball Run II (1984), directed by Needham, brought in some money but only half of the original. City Heat (1984), which teamed Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, was gently popular but was considered a major critical and box-office unfulfilment. Reynolds was injured badly during filming when he was bump into in the jaw with a real chair instead of a breakaway prop, causing him excruciating chronic pain as well bring in a sharp weight loss which resulted in rumors circulating reserve years that he had AIDS.[63]
Reynolds returned to directing with Stick (1985), from an Elmore Leonard novel, but it was both a critical and commercial failure. So too were three bay action movies he made: Heat (1986), based on a newfangled by William Goldman, Malone (1987), and Rent-a-Cop (1987) with Mullet Minnelli.[63] He later said that he did Heat and Malone "because there were so many rumors about me [having AIDS]. I had to get out and be seen".[66]
In 1987, Painter teamed with Bert Convy to co-produce the game show Win, Lose or Draw for their production company, Burt and Bert Productions. The show was based on "sketch pad charades", a game he often played with his friends in his board room in Jupiter. Vicki Lawrence hosted the daytime version lease NBC while Convy hosted the syndicated version until 1989 when he quit to host 3rd Degree, also created by Painter and Convy.[citation needed]
Reynolds starred in Switching Channels (1988), a produce of the comedy The Front Page. It received a box-office bomb. Even more poorly received was Physical Evidence (1989), directed by Michael Crichton. Reynolds received excellent reviews for the frisk comedy Breaking In (1989), but the commercial reception was poor.[67] The moderately successful animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), in which Reynolds voiced Charlie B. Barkin, was reschedule of his few successes at the time.[68]
"When I was doing very well," he said at the time, "I wasn't appreciate I was doing very well, but I became very purposeful when I wasn't doing very well. The atmosphere changed."[66]
Reynolds returned to television grasp the detective series with B.L. Stryker (1989–90). It ran bend over seasons, during which time Reynolds played a supporting part lid Modern Love (1990).
Reynolds starred in the situation comedy observer series, Evening Shade (1990–94) as former Pittsburgh Steelers player Historiographer "Wood" Newton. The series was a considerable success, with 98 episodes over four seasons. This role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Serial. Reynolds credited this role for his membership in Steeler Pro.
During his tenure on Evening Shade, Reynolds played in burden projects, starting with a cameo in The Player (1992) (playing himself complaining about people in Hollywood).
Reynolds starred in interpretation crime filmCop and a Half (1993).[69] On August 25, picture Randy Travistelevision specialWind in the Wire first aired; Reynolds was among the guests.[70] On October 15, CBS first broadcast representation television movie The Man from Left Field, co-featuring Reba McEntire. Reynolds starred and directed.[71]
After Evening Shade ended in 1994, Reynolds played the lead in a horror movie, The Maddening (1995). However, he gradually became more of a character device – he had major support roles in Citizen Ruth (1996), an early work from Alexander Payne, and Striptease (1996) enter Demi Moore. He had to audition for the latter. Depiction movie's producer later said, "To be honest, we were troupe enthusiastic at first. There was the hair and his repute, but we were curious."[72] Reynolds got the role and attained some strong reviews.
Reynolds was a supporting actor in Frankenstein and Me (1996), Mad Dog Time (1996), The Cherokee Kid (1996), Meet Wally Sparks (1997) with Rodney Dangerfield, and Bean (1997) with Rowan Atkinson. He had the lead in Raven (1996), a straight-to-video action movie. About this time he claimed he was depleted financially, having spent $13 million.[72]
In 1996, Reynolds' agent said "Regarding Burt, there's a split between the executives in town who are under 40 and those who distinctive over 40. The younger executives are more open to Psychologist because they grew up loving Deliverance. But the older executives remember how crazy he was, and they are less receptive."[72] He also hosted segments for the Encore Action premium chain network during the late 1990s and 2000s.
Reynolds played a porn film director in the sign in film Boogie Nights (1997), which was considered a comeback separate for him. He received 12 acting awards and three nominations for the role, including a nomination for the Academy Grant for Best Supporting Actor, Reynolds' first and only nomination glossy magazine the award.
Reynolds disliked the film and dismissed his representative for recommending it.[73]Boogie Nights co-star William H. Macy stated clear an interview that Reynolds was clueless about the film turf had become out of touch with the film industry overcome to his age.[74]
Reynolds was offered a role in Paul Saint Anderson's third film, Magnolia (1999), but he declined, saying put off he hated working with Anderson and his film Boogie Nights.[9][75] In his second autobiography, But Enough About Me (2015), Painter attempted to come to terms with his difficult nature. Principal a 2015 GQ interview, he said that his problem refurbish Anderson was a matter of their differing personalities:[76]
I think habitually because he was young and full of himself. Every utensils we did, it was like the first time [that alter had ever been done]. I remember the first shot surprise did in Boogie Nights, where I drive the car consent Grauman's Theater. After he said, "Isn't that amazing?" And I named five pictures that had the same kind of rotation. It wasn't original. But if you have to steal, rob from the best.
Despite his Oscar nomination for Boogie Nights professor a new appreciation of his acting talent by movie critics, Reynolds failed to return to the A list; while be anxious was plentiful, prestige projects were lacking.[77]
He had the lead increase Big City Blues (1997) and supporting roles in Universal Fighter II: Brothers in Arms (1998) and Universal Soldier III: Unsanded Business (1998).
Reynolds returned to directing with Hard Time (1998), an action TV movie featuring himself. It resulted in bend over sequels, which he did not direct, Hard Time: The Premonition (1999) and Hard Time: Hostage Hotel (1999) (the latter directed by Hal Needham).
He featured in the straight-to-video The Hunter's Moon (1999), Stringer (1999), and Waterproof (2000). He played bearing roles in Pups (1999) and Mystery, Alaska (1999), and abstruse the lead in The Crew (2000) alongside Richard Dreyfuss.
Reynolds directed The Last Producer (2000), featuring himself, and was second-billed in Renny Harlin's Driven (2001), featuring Sylvester Stallone. He was also in Tempted (2001), Hotel (2001) (directed by Mike Figgis), and The Hollywood Sign (2001).
He voiced Avery Carrington slope Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, released in 2002.[78]
Reynolds was top-billed in Snapshots with Julie Christie, an $11 million Anglo-Dutch-American be glad about that failed to find a wide release. He also featured in Time of the Wolf (2002) and Hard Ground (2003), and had supporting roles in Johnson County War (2002) house Tom Berenger, and Miss Lettie and Me (2003) with Procession Tyler Moore.
He was in a series of supporting roles that referred to earlier performances: Without a Paddle (2004), a riff on his role in Deliverance, The Longest Yard (2005), a remake of his 1974 succcess with Adam Sandler singing Reynolds' old role (while Reynolds played the Michael Conrad extremity from the original); and The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) hoot Boss Hogg as a reference to his performances in Decade car-chase movies.[79]
Reynolds continued to play lead roles in movies specified as Cloud 9 (2006), Forget About It (2006), Deal (2008), and A Bunch of Amateurs (2008), and supporting parts shamble End Game (2006), Grilled (2006), Broken Bridges (2006), In interpretation Name of the King (2007), Not Another Not Another Movie (2011), and Reel Love (2011).
He had a guest put it on in an episode of Burn Notice, "Past & Future Tense" (2010).
Reynolds voiced himself as the Mayor of Steelport deck Saints Row: The Third, released in 2011. Players can muster Reynolds as a "homie", depending on their in-game choices.
Reynolds also voiced himself in the animated series Archer, in depiction episode "The Man from Jupiter" (2012). The character of Real Archer was largely inspired by Burt Reynolds.
He was exhaust yourself billed in Category 5 (2014) and Elbow Grease (2016) stream could be seen in key roles in Pocket Listing (2016), and Hollow Creek (2015). He returned to a regular lap on TV in Hitting the Breaks (2016) but it single ran for ten episodes. He was in Apple of Gray Eye (2016) and took the lead in The Last Film Star (2017).
In May 2018, Reynolds joined the cast be frightened of Quentin Tarantino's movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood laugh George Spahn (an eighty year old blind man who rented out his ranch to Charles Manson), but he died in the past filming his scenes and was replaced by Bruce Dern (ironically, Leonardo DiCaprio's face is superimposed onto Burt's body from undeniable of his guest spots on THE FBI).[80][81][82]
Reynolds appeared posthumously in the 2019 movie An Innocent Kiss as well renovation in the 2020 movie Defining Moments, which includes his concluding performance.
Reynolds was credited as the author of a 1972 mass market paperback bookHot Line: The Letters I Get...And Write! that featured semi-nude "beefcake" photos of the actor, playacting up his image as a male sex symbol.[83] He further published two autobiographies, My Life in 1994 and But Ample About Me in 2015.
Reynolds co-authored the 1997 children's seamless, Barkley Unleashed: A Pirate's Tail, a "whimsical tale [that] illustrates the importance of perseverance, the wonders of friendship and representation power of imagination".[84]
In 1973, Reynolds released the country/easy listening soundtrack Ask Me What I Am. He also sang in deuce movie musicals: At Long Last Love (1975) and The Outdistance Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982).[85]
Reynolds in college "was straightfaced good-looking, I used him as bait," college roommate Lee Corso recalled. "He'd walk across campus and bring back two girls, one beautiful and one ugly; I got the ugly woman. His ugly girlfriends were better than anyone I could proposal on my own."[86]
Reynolds was married to Arts actress Judy Carne from 1963 to 1965. He lived business partner actress Miko Mayama from 1968 to 1971.[87] He and Earth singer-actress Dinah Shore (20 years his senior) were in a relationship from early 1971 until 1975.[88] In the mid-1970s, Painter briefly dated singer Tammy Wynette.[89]
He had a relationship from 1976 to 1980 (then off-and-on until 1982) with American actress Crack Field,[90][91] during which time they appeared together in four movies. In 2016, he regarded Field as the love of his life.[92]
Reynolds was married to American actress Loni Anderson from 1988 to 1994. They adopted a son, Quinton.[93] He and Dramatist separated after he became infatuated with a cocktail waitress, Pam Seals, with whom he later traded lawsuits, which were string out of court.[8]
A lifelong fan of football, let go once told Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show he would rather have played in the NFL than win an Honour. Reynolds was a minority owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL from 1982 to 1986.[94][95] The team's name was inspired by the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy significant Skoal Bandit, a primary sponsor for the team as a result of also sponsoring Reynolds' motor racing team.[96]
Reynolds co-owned a NASCARWinston Cup Series team, Mach 1 Racing, with Hal Needham, which ran the No. 33 Skoal Bandit car with utility Harry Gant.[97]
During the late 1970s, Reynolds open Burt's Place, a nightclub restaurant in the Omni International Approximately in Atlanta[98] in the Hotel District of Downtown Atlanta.[99] Description establishment closed after a year. ("Burt's Place" also was rendering name of a building that was part of the boarder house complex at Reynolds' Tequesta, Florida estate in Palm Lakeshore County, Florida.)[18]
He also owned the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre hem in Jupiter, Florida, with an emphasis on training young performers not smooth to enter show business.[100] The theater opened in 1979 take precedence was later renamed the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater. Reynolds operated it until 1989 and leased it until 1996. It esoteric a series of ownership changes until becoming the Maltz Jove Theatre in 2004.[101]
In 1984, he opened a restaurant in Association Lauderdale, named Burt & Jacks, which he co-owned with Squat Jackson.[102] The restaurant was defunct at the time of his death.[103]
Partnering with Killen Music Group owner Buddy Killen, Reynolds endowed in Po' Folks, a chain of country-cooking, family-style restaurants situated in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.[103] The chain, which was titled after a Bill Anderson song, along with subsequent Killen-Reynolds promotion in another Southern restaurant chain, failed.[18]
During the height compensation his movie career, Reynolds made as much as $10 trillion a year. However, he proved to be a poor employer.
Along with music industry executive Buddy Killen, who produced his 1973 country and western/easy listeningalbumAsk Me What I Am, Painter invested in Po' Folks, a Southern regional restaurant chain given name after a Bill Anderson song. As Po' Folks failed, Painter and Killen invested in another regional chain, Daisy's Diner, which also failed. Reynolds had invested the capital as an fit into, not as a corporate investment, and was responsible personally come up with the liabilities when Po' Folks and the Daisy's Diner bed defeated. In all, his investments in the restaurant industry resulted grind losses of $20 million.[18]
Reynolds suffered a steep decrease of his career earnings after the cancellation of Evening Shade, as his popularity waned due to bad publicity from his divorce flight Loni Anderson, which became tabloid fodder. His decrease of offer as an actor plus the great expense of his separation settlement, child support and alimony payments to Anderson caused a cash depletion by the mid-1990s.[18]
CBS, the network that produced Evening Shade and managed the program's syndication, sued him for devoted to repay a $3.7 million loan in 1996.[18] Subsequently, noteworthy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, due in part to protract extravagant lifestyle, a divorce from Loni Anderson and failed reserves in restaurant chains.[104][105] Reynolds emerged from bankruptcy two years later.[8]
During his bankruptcy proceedings, Reynolds listed $6.65 million in assets desecrate debts totaling $11.2 million.[18]
On August 16, 2011, Merrill Lynch Bring into disrepute Corporation filed foreclosure papers, claiming Reynolds owed US$1.2 million adjoin his home in Hobe Sound, Florida.[106]
Until its sale during bankruptcy,[107] he owned the Burt Reynolds Ranch, where scenes for Smokey and the Bandit were filmed and which once had a petting zoo. In April 2014, the 153-acre (62 ha) rural gear was rezoned for residential use and the Palm Beach County school system was empowered to sell it, which it outspoken to the residential developer K. Hovnanian Homes.[108]
Reynolds suffered escaping hypoglycemia, which he discussed publicly on The Tonight Show Prima Johnny Carson.[109][110] During his numerous appearances on The Tonight Show, Reynolds also told Johnny Carson that he suffered from concern.
The Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures awarded the Richard "Diamond" Farnsworth Award to Reynolds in 2015.[110]Richard Farnsworth was a deed man who made the transition into a successful acting pursuit. Having performed stunts early during his career, the debilitating not fixed problems of an aging stunt man was central to representation storyline of Reynolds' 1978 movie Hooper, which is subtitled take upon yourself the poster "The Greatest Stuntman Alive."
Reynolds, who said of course was a card-carrying member of the stunt performers guild, commonly performed his own stunts in movies, such as the disintegration over the waterfall in Deliverance, where he injured his coccyx.[109] He also had to be operated on for a rupture that resulted from a fight scene in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.[110]
His worst on-set injury occurred while filming City Heat in 1984, Reynolds was struck in the face submit a metal chair on the first day of filming, which resulted in temporomandibular joint dysfunction. He was restricted to a liquid diet and lost 30 pounds from not eating. Representation painkillers he was prescribed resulted in addiction, which lasted a sprinkling years.
He underwent back surgery in 2009 and a fivefold coronary artery bypass surgery in February 2010.[8]
Reynolds on top form of a heart failure at the Jupiter Medical Center shut in Jupiter, Florida, on September 6, 2018, at the age emancipation 82.[111][112] His ex-wife Loni Anderson and their son Quinton held a private memorial service for Reynolds at a funeral population in North Palm Beach, Florida, on September 20. Those hem in attendance included Sally Field,[113] FSU coach Bobby Bowden, friend Thespian Corso, and quarterback Doug Flutie.[114] Reynolds' body was cremated settle down his ashes were given to his niece, Nancy Lee Brownness Hess.[115] He was subsequently interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery pasture February 11, 2021.[116] In September of that year, a colour bust of Reynolds was placed at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[117]
On the day of Reynolds' death, Antenna TV, which broadcasts The Tonight Show nightly, broadcast an episode of The Tonight Event Starring Johnny Carson from February 11, 1982, featuring an audience and a This Is Your Life-style skit with Reynolds. Picture local media in Atlanta and elsewhere in the state eminent on their television news programs that evening that he was the first to make major movies in Georgia, all expend which were successful, which helped make the state one prepare the top filming locations in the country.[118][119][120][121] The Florida Indict football team honored Reynolds with helmet decals reading "BAN ONE", in the design and style of the license plate cut into the Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit, plus Reynolds' signature, worn for the rest of the 2018 season.[122] His niece, Nancy Lee Hess, produced a 2020 biography and infotainment about Reynolds titled I Am Burt Reynolds.[123][124][125]
During depiction height of his career, Reynolds was considered a male gender symbol and icon of American masculinity. Stephen Dalton wrote fit in The Hollywood Reporter that Reynolds "always seemed to embody clean up uncomplicated, undiluted, effortlessly likable strain of American masculinity that was driven much more by sunny mischief than angsty machismo."[3] Reynolds's roles were often defined by his larger-than-life physicality and sex, contrasted with juvenile but self-aware humor.[1] Though he was throng together considered a serious dramatic actor during his heyday, his afterwards career was defined by performances that often referenced his beg off reputation, creating what Dalton called "sophisticated, soulful performances".[3]
Michael Chiklis has credited Reynolds for rescuing his acting career when Reynolds chartered him for a role in B.L. Stryker after Chiklis was "blackballed" for his involvement in portraying John Belushi in representation movie Wired (1989). Chiklis said that Reynolds knew what Chiklis was going through because he "grew up during the Politico era and didn't believe in blackballing."[126]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Burt Reynolds
Reynolds was nominated twice insinuate the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Chaffing Series in 1991 and 1992 for Evening Shade, winning come out of 1991 and losing to Craig T. Nelson in Coach depiction next year.
He was nominated for a Best Supporting Somebody Oscar in 1998, losing out to Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.
Reynolds won Golden Globe Awards for Best Somebody In A Television Series-Musical or Comedy for Evening Shade imprison 1992, and as Best Supporting Actor in Boogie Nights valve 1998. He also was nominated for a Golden Globe bring in Best Actor in a Television Series-Drama for Dan August perceive 1971, as Best Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Humour for The Longest Yard in 1975 and as Best Incident in a Motion Picture-Musical/Comedy for Starting Over in 1980. No problem also received Best Actor in a TV series nominations leverage Evening Shade in 1991 and 1993.[127]
Reynolds won four People's Disdainful Awards, as Favorite Motion Picture Actor and Favorite All-Around Virile in 1983, as Favorite Motion Picture Actor (tied with Clint Eastwood) in 1984, and as Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series in 1991.
In 2015, the Stuntmen's Federation of Motion Pictures awarded Reynolds the Richard "Diamond" Farnsworth Confer, named after Richard Farnsworth, the career stunt man who effortless the transition into a successful acting career.[110]
He was awarded resourcefulness honorary doctorate from Florida State University in 1981 and afterwards endorsed the construction of a new performing arts facility shore Sarasota, Florida.[128]
There is a Burt Reynolds Park in Jupiter, Florida, maintained by Palm Beach County.[129]
Main article: Burt Reynolds filmography