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Brooks, it reteamed Reynolds with Clayburgh, alongside Candice Bergen - both of whom earned Oscar nominations for their roles. Pakula-directed romantic comedy Starting Over. He took a left turn with his next film, the Alan J. That same year, Reynolds directed himself and frequent co-stars Field and Dom DeLuise in slapstick dark comedy The End. Reynolds and Needham would reteam for the 1978 comedy Hooper, which co-starred Jan-Michael Vincent as a hotshot upstart stuntman who tries to upstage the wily stunt king (Reynolds).

Also starring Sally Field and Jerry Reed, it was one of the year’s most popular films and helped fuel the CB radio craze of the era. Directed by stunt legend Hal Needham, it starred Reynolds as a speed-burning smuggler who is chased through the American South by local-yokel Sheriff Buford T. The 1977 car-chase epic Smokey and the Bandit was a stone smash.

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and the Dixie Dancekings, Hustle and Nickelodeon  he also played himself in Mel Brooks ‘ Silent Movie. But Reynolds’ stardom was about to hit full speed - and he would become filmdom’s biggest box office draw for five consecutive years. Reynolds’ film career stayed on solid ground through the mid-1970s with films including W.W. Reynolds co-starred as Nate Scarborough, the role played by Michael Conrad in the original. Widely regarded as one of the greatest sports movies, it was remade in 2005 with Adam Sandler in the Paul Crewe role. (He would reprise his Gator McKlusky role from the latter in 1976’s Gator, which also was his feature helming debut.) Reynolds then made the first of two football-themed ’70s films, playing a washed-up ex-star quarterback-turned-prison inmate in The Longest Yard. It became one of the year’s top-grossing films, and Reynolds’ film career was off.Īfter a role in Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), he starred the next year in the private-eye pic Shamus and followed with lead roles in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing and White Lightning that same year.

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That series also re-aired as his big-screen fame grew, with CBS running episode in 19, and Reynolds returned for a trio of Dan August telefilms in 1980.īut everything was about to change for Burt Reynolds.Īfter starring with Raquel Welch in the 1972 romp Fuzz, he co-starred in Deliverance, director John Boorman disturbing film about four friends who take a canoe adventure in the Georgia wilderness. August always got his man, but the show was not renewed after its rookie year. This time it was ABC’s Dan August (1970), playing a detective who got personally involved in his cases.

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Reynolds continued to work in TV and film through the ’60s before landing a third toplining TV series. An episode Hawk was Reynolds’ first time in the director’s chair - a TV role he would reprise in the 1980s with episodes of Amazing Stories and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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It lasted only one season but, as he movie career took off, NBC re-aired the series during the summer of 1976. He landed a second starring TV series in 1966, playing an Iroquois Indian police detective in ABC’s Hawk (left). He went on to guest or recur in the 1960s on such classic shows as Gunsmoke, Route 66, The FBI and the final hourlong episode of The Twilight Zone. After leaving school, he soon scored TV roles and was toplining his own series - NBC’s two-season Riverboat - by 1959. He eventually returned to the team but reaggravated the injury in a car wreck and was forced to hang up his cleats. Riverboat REX/Shutterstockīorn on February 11, 1936, in Lansing, MI, Reynolds was a burgeoning football star at Florida State University in the mid-1950s when a knee injury interrupted that career. He was among the most popular movie stars in the 1970s, starting with the gritty Deliverance (1972) - in which he starred alongside Jon Voight and Ned Beatty - and continuing with leads in hits including Shamus (1972), The Longest Yard (1974), Gator (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and its 1980 sequel, football dramedy Semi-Tough (1977), the stuntman tale Hooper (1978) and Starting Over (1980). Quentin Tarantino cast Reynolds in his star-packed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood back in May, but the actor had not filmed his scenes. Burt Reynolds On 'Cuckoo's Nest', 007, 'Die Hard' Bonding With Eastwood, McQueen, Newman & Carson But Not Brando