Burt Reynolds

Known for ActingBorn 1936-02-11Died 2018-09-06Lansing, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hamlet & Hutch

Love in Hollywood

Dolly

Medal of Honor

Picture This

Emeril

People's Choice Awards

Mickey's 50

The Brothers Brannagan

Wind in the Wire

The X-Files

Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

E! True Hollywood Story

The Twilight Zone

WWE WrestleMania X

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time

History vs. Hollywood

Founding Fathers

Archer

Jackie Gleason: The Great One

The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson

The Orson Welles Show

The Bandit

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

My Name Is Earl

Robot Chicken

Listen to Me Marlon

Ed

Hawk

The Larry Sanders Show

Everglades

Boogie Nights

30 for 30

Burn Notice

Inside the Actors Studio

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

Time of the Wolf

Duck Dodgers

Broken Bridges

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Golden Girls

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

The Carol Burnett Show

V.I.P. Schaukel

King of the Hill

Amazing Stories

Alfred Hitchcock Presents