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==Burt on TV==
Reynolds started his professional acting career in television. Throughout his career he has returned to TV sometimes just for an appearance here and there. Other times it has been for a main character in a series. In 2007 he returned to TV on a show called Celebrity Rides: Burt Builds a Bandit, In which he helps redesign an old Bandit edition Trans-Am. With this show it marks 48 years in television for this historic actor.

==TV work==
#''[[Riverboat (TV series)|Riverboat]]'' (cast member from [[1959]]-[[1960]])
#''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (cast member from [[1962]]-[[1965]])
#''[[Branded]]'' ([[1966]])
#''[[Hawk (TV series)|Hawk]]'' ([[1966]]) (canceled after 17 episodes)
#''[[Fade-In]]'' ([[1968]])
#''[[Double Jeopardy (disambiguation)|Double Jeopardy]]'' ([[1970]]) (pilot for ''[[Dan August]]'')
#''[[Hunters Are for Killing]]'' ([[1970]])
#''[[Run, Simon, Run]]'' ([[1970]])
#''[[The X-Files]]'' ([[2000]])
#''[[Dan August]]'' ([[1970]]-[[1971]])
#''[[Out of This World]]'' ([[1987]]-[[1991]]) (voice only)
#''[[The Golden Girls-"Ladies of the Evening"]]'' ([[1986]])
#''[[B.L. Stryker: The Dancer's Touch]]'' ([[1989]]) (pilot for ''[[B.L. Stryker]]'')
#''[[B.L. Stryker]]'' ([[1989]]-[[1990]])
#''[[B.L. Stryker: King of Jazz]]'' ([[1990]])
#''[[B.L. Stryker: Die Laughing]]'' ([[1990]]) (also director)
#''[[Evening Shade]]'' ([[1990]]-[[1994]])
#''[[The Man from Left Field]]'' ([[1993]]) (also director and producer)
#''[[Raven]]'' ([[1997]])
#''[[Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms]]'' ([[1998]])
#''[[Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business]]'' ([[1998]])
#''[[Hard Time]]'' ([[1998]]) (also director)
#''[[Hard Time: The Premonition]]'' ([[1999]])
#''[[Hard Time: Hostage Hotel]]'' ([[1999]])
#''[[Johnson County War]]'' ([[2002]]) (miniseries)
#''[[Miss Lettie and Me]]'' ([[2002]])
#''[[Hard Ground]]'' ([[2003]])
#''[[Robot Chicken]]'' ([[2005]]) (Guest voice)
#''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' ([[2006]])
#''[[Celebrity Rides: Burt builds a Bandit]]'' ([[2007]]) (5 episodes)[http://my.heavy.com/burtbuildsabandit][http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows_dbbb/0,3178,DIY_30536,00.html]
*Reynolds also appeared on the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation]]'s [[WrestleMania X]] in 1994, appearing as guest ring announcer.


==Talk / Variety show appearances==
#''[[Corazón de]]'' (2006)
#''[[Sunday Morning Shootout]]'' (3 episodes, 2005-2006)
#''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'' (2 episodes, 2003,2005)
#''[[Live with Regis and Kathie Lee]]'' (2 episodes, 2004,2005)
#''[[Tavis Smiley]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200505/20050516_reynolds.html|title=Transcript|publisher=PBS}}</ref> (2005)
#''[[The Maury Povich Show]]'' (2004)
#''[[The Daily Show]]'' (2004)
#''[[Dinner for Five]]'' (2 episodes, 2004)
#''[[Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show]]'' (2004)
#''[[V Graham Norton]]'' (2003)
#''[[Reel Classics with Burt Reynolds]]'' (2003)
#''[[Hollywood Squares]]'' (6 episodes, 2002)
#''[[Biography (TV series)|Biography]]'' (2002)
#''[[Emeril]]'' (2001)
#''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]'' (2001)
#''[[Larry King Live]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/23/lkl.00.html|title=Transcript|publisher=CNN}}</ref> (2000)
#''[[The Howard Stern Radio Show]]'' (1999)
#''[[Celebrity Profile]]'' (1999)
#''[[Dennis Miller Live]]'' (1998)
#''[[Burt Reynolds' Conversations with]]'' (1997)
#''[[The Rosie O'Donnell Show]]'' (1996)
#''[[Howard Stern]]'' (1996)
#''[[Ruby Wax Meets...]]'' (1996)
#''[[Cybill]]'' (1995)
#''[[Dame Edna's Hollywood]]'' (1993)
#''[[Dinah Shore: A Special Conversation with Burt Reynolds]]''(1991)
#''[[Win, Lose or Draw]]'' (1989)
#''[[Dolly (TV series)|Dolly]]'' (1987)
#''[[Southern Voices, American Dreams]]'' (1985)
#''[[Star Search]]'' (1984)
#''[[Mike Douglas Presents]]'' (1984)
#''[[This Is Your Life]]'' (1983)
#''[[The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour]]'' (1983)
#''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'' (1981)
#''[[The Barbara Walters Special]]'' (2 episodes, 1978,1980)
#''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (1980)
#''[[Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 17th Anniversary Special]]'' (1979)
#''[[The Orson Welles Show]]'' (1979)
#''[[The Wonderful World of Disney]]''"Mickey's 50" (1978)
#''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' (11 episodes, 1971-1975,1978)
#''[[The Jim Nabors Show]]'' (1978)
#''[[The Mike Douglas Show]]'' (3 episodes, 1976-1977)
#''[[Dinah]]'' (1975)
#''[[Burt Reynolds Late Show]]'' (1974)
#''[[Dinah Shore: In Search of the Ideal Man]]'' (1973)
#''[[Dinah Shore: How to Handle a Woman]]'' (1972)
#''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]'' (1972)
#''[[The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour]]'' (2 episodes, 1972)
#''[[The David Frost Show]]'' (1971)
#''[[The Hollywood Squares]]'' (5 episodes, 1970)
#''[[The Merv Griffin Show]]'' (1970)
#''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]'' (1967)


==Awards and Achievements==
==Awards and Achievements==

Revision as of 03:27, 12 November 2007

Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds in 1991
Born
Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr.
Other namesBuddy
Years active1959-present
SpouseJudy Carne (June 28, 1963 - 1965) (divorced) Loni Anderson (April 29, 1988 - March 7, 1995) (divorced)
WebsiteBurtReynolds.com

Burt Reynolds (born February 11, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated Emmy Award-winning American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Paul Crewe in the original version of The Longest Yard, Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, J.J. McClure in The Cannonball Run and Jack Horner in Boogie Nights.

Burt is one of America's most recognizable film and television personalities. With more than 90 feature film and 300 television episode credits, he was the number-one box-office attraction for five straight years (1978-82) a record no one else has ever achieved.

Early life

Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr.[2], was born the son of Fern and Burton Reynolds, a police officer.[3] Reynolds' family lived in several Southern and Midwestern cities during his childhood, before settling in Riviera Beach, Florida.[3] Reynolds thought he was in paradise; he had access to the Everglades to the west, the shore of the Lake Worth Lagoon to the east, and further east, across the Blue Heron Boulevard bridge to Singer Island, the Atlantic Ocean. He was fascinated by the Conch fishermen and their families who made up most of the population of Riviera Beach.[4]

After two years Burt Senior's contractor job ended, and the Reynolds bought a lunch counter and sundry store next to the bridge to Singer Island. As the business was close to a large dock and some fish and shrimp packing houses, business was good. Soon after, Burt Senior was recruited as a police officer for Riviera Beach. When the police chief died a few years later, Burt Senior became the chief.[5]

As the Reynolds family home was at the north edge of Riviera Beach, Burt Junior attended school in Lake Park, just to the north of Riviera Beach. While Burt Junior was in seventh grade, the Palm Beach County School Board decided that there were too few seventh grade students in the school to justify a teacher's salary, and Burt was transferred to Central Junior High School (now Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts) in West Palm Beach. Burt felt lost at the big school, and started hanging out with greasers and skipping school. He also began showing off with dangerous stunts, such as diving off the top of a raised drawbridge, and jumping from an airboat onto the back of a running deer.[6]

When Burt Junior was twelve he became friends with Jimmy Hooks. After learning that Jimmy was being physically abused in his home, Burt Junior took Jimmy home with him and told his parents he wanted Jimmy to be his brother. The Reynolds took Jimmy in. The Reynolds officially adopted Jimmy Hooks years later, when he was in his twenties.[7]

When Burt Junior was fourteen he tried out for football team at Central Junior High. He had never played organized sports, but worked hard at practice, earned his letterman's sweater, and was named to the county all-star team. The next year, when Burt Junior entered high school, he made the varsity team, but did not have much opportunity to play. In his junior year Reynolds had more opportunity to play. Seeing his ability, and foreseeing that he was likely to receive scholarship offers, one of Reynolds coaches persuaded him to take the courses necessary to enter a college. In his senior year Reynolds was named First Team All State and All Southern as a fullback, and received multiple scholarship offers.[8]

College

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Burt Reynolds at Florida State

After graduating from Palm Beach High School in West Palm Beach, Florida, Reynolds attended Florida State University on a college football scholarship, becoming an all-star halfback. While at Florida State, Reynolds joined the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, the football team's fraternity of choice. He was anticipating a very good season his second year, with expectations of being named to All American teams, and an eventual career in professional football. In the first game of the season Reynolds tore the cartilage in his knee. He made the injury worse by trying to play again later in the game, and then again in a couple of games late in the season. On Christmas break that year, Reynolds ran his father's car up under a flatbed trailer that was sitting across a dark street. The car was wedged under the trailer, and it took rescuers seven and a half hours to remove Reynolds from the wreckage. He had multiple injuries, including his knee, shoulder, some broken ribs, and a ruptured spleen, the last of which was removed in emergency surgery.[9]

With his college football career ended, Reynolds considered becoming a police officer, but his father suggested that he finish college and become a parole officer. In order to keep up with his studies he began taking classes at Palm Beach Junior College (PBJC) in neighboring Lake Park. In his first term at PBJC Reynolds was in a class taught by Watson B. Duncan III. Duncan pushed Reynolds into trying out for a play he was producing, Outward Bound. He cast Reynolds in the lead, based on his impressions from listening to Reynolds read Shakespeare in class. Reynolds won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award for his performance in Outward Bound. Reynolds calls Duncan his mentor and the most-influential person in his life.[10]

Career

Acting

The Florida State Drama Award included a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse, a summer stock theater, in Hyde Park, New York. Reynolds saw the opportunity as an agreeable alternative to more physically demanding summer jobs, but did not yet see acting as a career. While working at Hyde Park Reynolds met Joanne Woodward, who helped Reynolds find an agent, and be cast in Tea and Sympathy at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Reynolds received favorable reviews for his performance in Tea and Sympathy. Reynolds then went on tour with Tea and Sympathy, driving the bus as well as appearing on stage.[11]

After the tour Reynolds returned to New York and enrolled in acting classes. His classmates included Frank Gifford, Carol Lawrence, Red Buttons and Jan Murray. After a botched improvisation in acting class, Reynolds briefly considered returning to Florida, but he soon got a part in a revival of Mister Roberts, with Charlton Heston as the star. After the play closed, the director, John Forsythe, arranged a movie audition with Josh Logan for Reynolds. The movie was Sayonara, and Reynolds was told he couldn't be in the movie because he looked too much like Marlon Brando. Logan advised Reynolds to go to Hollywood, but Reynolds did not feel confident enough to do so.[12]

Reynolds worked odd jobs while waiting for acting opportunities. He waited tables, washed dishes, drove a delivery truck and worked as a bouncer at the Roseland Ballroom. It was while working as a dockworker that Reynolds was offered $150 to jump through a glass window on a live television show.[13]

He made his Broadway debut in Look, We've Come Through. Reynolds first starred on television, in the 1950s series, Riverboat, and went on to appear in a number of other shows, including a role as blacksmith Quint Asper on Gunsmoke from 1962 to 1965.

His film debut was in 1961, in the movie Angel Baby. At the urging of friend Clint Eastwood, Reynolds used his TV fame to secure leading roles in overseas low budget films, commonly called "Spaghetti Westerns". (Eastwood advised Reynolds from experience, as he had done the same). Reynolds first Spaghetti Western, Navajo Joe, came out in 1966. These low budget starring roles established Reynolds as a bankable leading man in movies, and earned him starring roles in American big-budget motion pictures. His breakout performance in Deliverance in 1972 made him a star. The same year, Reynolds gained notoriety when he posed naked in the April (Vol. 172, No. 4) issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Reynolds claims he was offered the role of James Bond by producer Albert R. Broccoli, after Sean Connery left the franchise. Reynolds turned the role down, saying "An American can't play James Bond. It just can't be done."[14] In 1973, he released the album Ask Me What I Am. He would also sing in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

On March 15, 1978, Reynolds earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in the same year built a dinner theatre in Jupiter, Florida. His celebrity was such that he drew not only big-name stars to appear in productions but sell-out audiences as well. He sold the venue in the early 1990s.

In the 1980s, after Smokey and the Bandit, he became typecast in similar, less well-done and less successful movies. Comedian and actor Robert Wuhl, in a standup act in the late 80s, said that "Burt Reynolds makes so many bad movies, when someone else makes a bad movie Burt gets a royalty!" He had his hand at producing a television show with friend Bert Convy in 1987, Win, Lose or Draw. He even appeared as a celebrity gameplayer in a few episodes of the show.

During the first half of the 1990s, he was the star of the CBS television series Evening Shade, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1991). Reynolds started a comeback with the movie Striptease in 1996, and the critically acclaimed Boogie Nights, in 1997, put his career back on track. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Boogie Nights and won a Golden Globe Award for the movie. He was considered a front-runner for the Supporting Oscar, but ultimately lost to Robin Williams, who won it for his role in Good Will Hunting.

In early 2000, he created and toured Burt Reynolds' One Man Show. In 2002, he lent his voice to the character Avery Carrington in the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

In 2005, he co-starred in two remakes: the first released was of The Longest Yard, this time with Adam Sandler playing the role of Paul Crewe, the role Reynolds had played in the 1974 original. This time around, Reynolds took on the role of Nate Scarborough. The second was of the hit 1980s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, as Boss Hogg.

He starred in the audio book version of The Worst Case Scenario Handbook. In May 2006, Reynolds began appearing in Miller Lite beer commercials. In 2007 at the World Stuntman Awards he was awarded the Taurus Lifetime Achievement Award. While presenting him with the award Arnold Schwarzenegger referred to him as the greatest of the great.

Southern filmmaking

Although Reynolds had already made eleven films, his performance as Lewis, the macho Atlanta businessman in the 1972 film adaptation of James Dickey's novel Deliverance, signaled the beginning of his box-office popularity. Hailed as one of the year's best films, Deliverance is the story of four suburbanites' harrowing journey into Appalachian Georgia. Filmed on Georgia's Chattooga River, Deliverance also marked the beginning of Reynolds's devotion to making films in and about the South.

The following year Reynolds was persuaded to play the role of a moonshiner in the film White Lightning after the filmmakers promised to shoot in the South. White Lightning, which was filmed in Arkansas, broke attendance records nationwide, and the film's success encouraged Hollywood studios to make more southern films. In 1976 Reynolds both starred in and made his directorial debut with Gator, the sequel to White Lightning. Deciding to shoot Gator entirely in Georgia, Reynolds announced that “I have this violent urge to get behind the camera... I want to say some nice things about the South.”

In 1974 Reynolds starred in The Longest Yard, which was filmed at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville. In the film Reynolds portrays a former athletic star forced to compete in a life-and-death football game. Many inmates served as extras and helped to construct the sets, including a football field that was given to the prison after filming was complete. Governor Jimmy Carter played a key role in the orchestration of the project and, according to Reynolds, promised that he "would personally come in and take me out if anything happened." The film, remade in 2005 with Reynolds in the role of Coach Nate Scarborough was popular with audiences, but not with critics.

During the next few years Reynolds continued his pattern of choosing southern-themed films that were often shot, at least partially, in the South. In the 1975 film W. W. and the Dixie Dance Kings, filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, he plays one of several country musicians hoping for success with the Reynolds and Reed Grand Ole Opry. Two years later, Smokey and the Bandit, which also features the Georgia musician Jerry Reed, was released and is one of Reynolds's best-known and loved films. Filmed entirely in Georgia, the successful comedy was followed in 1980 by Smokey and the Bandit II, which was filmed partially in Georgia.

Reynolds's next film, The Cannonball Run 1981, was shot almost entirely in Georgia, referred to as "Burt's good luck state" by the director, Hal Needham. That same year Reynolds directed and starred in Sharky's Machine. Filmed entirely in Atlanta, the movie features Reynolds as a narcotics officer investigating the murder of a prostitute in the city.

During these years, Reynolds starred in a number of other notable films, including The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing 1973; Semi-Tough 1977; The End 1978, which he also directed; Starting Over 1979; and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1982, which was filmed mostly in Texas.[15]

Personal life

Relationships

At various points in his life, Reynolds was romantically involved with Dinah Shore, Sally Field, and Chris Evert.[16] His relationship with Shore garnered particular attention given the fact she was 20 years his senior. Reynolds was married to actress/comedienne Judy Carne from 1963 to 1965, and actress Loni Anderson from 1988 to 1993, with whom he adopted a son, Quinton Anderson Reynolds. E! Online reports that he dated Kate Edelman Johnson from 2003 to 2005.[17]

His autobiography, titled My Life, was published in 1994 with much writing help from his close personal friend, Al Glasgow.

Sports team owner

On July 3, 1982, Reynolds lived out one of his dreams by once again getting involved with a sport that still holds a certain soft spot in his heart, by becoming a co-owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits, a professional football team in the USFL. Other owners included John Bassett, a Canadian movie producer, and Stephen Arky, an attorney from Miami. Reynolds was a general partner of the team from 1982 to 1985, the entire existence of the USFL. The team held a winning record in every year. In 1983 they went 11–7–0 in the Central Division but did not make the playoffs. In 1984 they went 14–4–0 in the Southern Division and lost in the conference semifinals to the Birmingham Stallions 36–17. In 1985 they went 10–8–0 in the Eastern Conference but lost in the quarterfinals to the Oakland Invaders 30–27.

Reynolds also co-owned a NASCAR Winston Cup team with Hal Needham, which ran the #33 Skoal Bandits car, with driver Harry Gant.

Filmography

Main article: Burt Reynolds on TV
Year Film Role Notes
1961 Angel Baby Hoke Adams First Film
Armored Command Skee  
1965 Operation C.I.A. Mark Andrews  
1966 Navajo Joe Joe  
1969 100 Rifles Yaqui Joe Herrera  
Sam Whiskey Sam Whiskey  
Impasse Pat Morrison  
Shark! Caine  
1970 Skullduggery Douglas Temple  
1972 Deliverance Lewis Medlock  
Fuzz Det. Steve Carella  
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) Sperm Switchboard Chief cameo role
1973 Shamus Shamus McCoy  
White Lightning Gator McKlusky  
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing Jay Grobart  
1974 The Longest Yard Paul Crewe  
1975 At Long Last Love Michael Oliver Pritchard III  
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings W.W. Bright  
Lucky Lady Walker Ellis song performer
Hustle Lieutenant Phil Gaines also executive producer
1976 Silent Movie himself cameo role
Gator Gator McKlusky also director
Nickelodeon Buck Greenway  
1977 Smokey and the Bandit Bo 'Bandit' Darville  
Semi-Tough Billy Clyde Puckett  
1978 The End Wendell Sonny Lawson also director
Hooper Sonny Hooper also producer
1979 Starting Over Phil Potter  
1980 Rough Cut Jack Rhodes  
Smokey and the Bandit II Bo 'Bandit' Darville  
1981 The Cannonball Run J.J. McClure  
Paternity Buddy Evans  
Sharky's Machine Sgt. Tom Sharky also director
1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd song performer
Best Friends Richard Babson  
1983 Stroker Ace Stroker Ace  
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 The Real Bandit/ Bo 'Bandit' Darville cameo role
The Man Who Loved Women David Fowler  
1984 Cannonball Run II J.J. McClure  
City Heat Mike Murphy  
1985 Southern Voices, American Dreams himself documentary
Stick Ernest 'Stick' Stickley also director
1986 Uphill All the Way himself cameo role
Sherman's March himself documentary
Heat Mex  
1987 Malone Richard Malone  
1988 Rent-A-Cop Tony Church  
Switching Channels John L. Sullivan IV  
1989 Physical Evidence Joe Paris  
Breaking In Ernie Mullins  
All Dogs Go to Heaven Charlie B. Barkin voice and song performer
1990 Modern Love Colonel Frank Parker  
1992 The Player himself cameo role
1993 Cop and a Half Nick McKenna  
1994 A Century of Cinema himself documentary
1995 The Maddening Roy Scudder  
1996 Frankenstein and Me Les Williams  
Citizen Ruth Blaine Gibbons  
Striptease Congressman David Dilbeck  
Mad Dog Time 'Wacky' Jacky Jackson  
1997 Meet Wally Sparks Lenny Spencer  
Bean General Newton  
Boogie Nights Jack Horner  
1998 Crazy Six Dakota  
1999 Waterproof Eli Zeal  
The Hunter's Moon Clayton Samuels  
Pups Daniel Bender  
Big City Blues Connor co-producer
Stringer Wolko  
Mystery, Alaska Judge Walter Burns  
2000 The Crew Joey 'Bats' Pistella  
The Last Producer Sonny Wexler also director
2001 Driven Carl Henry  
Tempted Charlie LeBlanc  
Hotel Flamenco Manager  
The Hollywood Sign Kage Mulligan  
Auf Herz und Nieren Banko German film
2002 Snapshots Larry Goldberg  
Time of the Wolf Archie McGregor  
2003 The Librarians Irish  
4th and Life Narrator documentary
Gumball 3000: The Movie himself voice
2004 Without a Paddle Del Knox  
2005 The Longest Yard Coach Nate Scarborough  
The Dukes of Hazzard Jefferson Davis 'Boss' Hogg  
Legend of Frosty the Snowman Narrator voice
2006 Cloud 9 Billy Cole  
End Game General Montgomery  
Forget About It Sam LeFleur  
Grilled Goldbluth  
Broken Bridges Jake Delton  
2007 Deal ?  
Randy and the Mob Elmore Culpepper  
Delgo Delgo's Father voice
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale King Konreid  
Announced Wait For Me[18]    
Small Town Saturday Night [19] Charlie  
Old Soldiers[20]    
Instant Karma [21]   voice

Awards and Achievements

  1. 1991 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (for Evening Shade)
  1. 1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (for Boogie Nights)
  2. 1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Comedy/Musical (for Evening Shade)
  1. 1991 Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series
  2. 1984 Favorite Motion Picture Actor (tied with Clint Eastwood)
  3. 1983 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
  4. 1983 Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer
  5. 1982 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
  6. 1982 Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer
  7. 1980 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
  8. 1979 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
  9. 1979 Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer
  1. 1980 Favorite Film Star - Male
  1. 1998 Best Supporting Actor (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1997 Best Supporting Actor (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1997 Best Supporting Actor (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1998 Best Supporting Actor (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1998 Best Supporting Actor (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1998 Best Supporting Actor (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1998 Best Ensemble Cast (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1998 Best Supporting Actor (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1991 Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series (for Evening Shade)
  1. 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award
  1. 1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1998 Supporting Actor of the Year (for Boogie Nights)
  1. 1990 Golden Boot
  1. 1980 Male Star of the Year Award
  2. 1978 Male Star of the Year Award
  1. 1997 Worst Screen Couple (for Striptease)
  2. 1994 Worst Actor (for Cop and ½)

Honorary recognitions

Reynolds has received a number of honorary recognitions over the years, mostly keys to various cities, or deputy badges from being deputized.

Further reading

  • Reynolds, Burt. 1994. My Life. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6130-4

References

  1. ^ Many sources list Waycross, Georgia as Reynold's birthplace ("Birthplace". Turner Classic Movies. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |25111&afiPersonalNameId= ignored (help), "Birthplace". Chicago Sun-Times (article from 2007). and "Birthplace". Biography Channel.), for example, while other sources show that he was born in Lansing, Michigan (Burt Reynold's Official Website), (NNBD and The Palm Beach Post, June 28, 2000). Reynolds' autobiography (My Life) does not name his birthplace, although it does cover his childhood in Lansing, and fails to mention Waycross at all. For more discussion on Burt Reynolds' birthplace, see ('discussion page)
  2. ^ "Birthname". Hollywood.com.
  3. ^ a b Streebeck, Nancy (1982). The Films of Burt Reynolds. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN0-8065-0785-3. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors= and |month= (help)
  4. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17-8
  5. ^ Reynolds. Pp.18-9
  6. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17, 22-4
  7. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17, 27-8
  8. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17, 33-7, 41-4
  9. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 49-56
  10. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 57-9
  11. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 59-63.
  12. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 63-5.
  13. ^ Reynolds. Pp. 65-7.
  14. ^ http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1038368.php
  15. ^ "Southern Filmmaking". The Georgia Encyclopedia.
  16. ^ "Chris". Allmovie.com.
  17. ^ "Kate". E!.
  18. ^ "Wait for Me". Hollywood.com.
  19. ^ "Small Town Saturday Night". Hollywood.com.
  20. ^ "Old Soldiers". Hollywood.com.
  21. ^ "Instant Karma". Hollywood.com.
  22. ^ "Walk of Fame". Wire Image.
  23. ^ "2000 Children at Heart". TV.com.
  24. ^ "2003 Atlanta Image Award". The New Georgia Encyclopedia.
  25. ^ ("Best Buddy Lifetime Achievement Award". tv.yahoo.com).) Burt Reynolds received a lifetime achievement award from Best Buddies Canada. The Oscar-nominated actor received the honour at a benefit gala with musical guest Chantal Kreviazuk in Toronto on Sept. 10, 2007. Best Buddies Canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to fostering friendships between students and individuals with intellectual disabilities. Reynolds is receiving its annual award for his decades-long "commitment to aiding and inspiring youth by supporting drama education and humanitarian causes," said the group. Such causes include the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre in Tequest, Fla., founded by the legendary actor in 1979. Donations by the star have also helped establish the Burt Reynolds Eminent Scholar Chair in Regional and Professional Theatre at Florida State University, and the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Fla. Reynolds has already been honoured for his efforts in aiding the children of Chernobyl.

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