Burt Reynolds
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| Burt Reynolds | |
 Burt Reynolds in 1991 |
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| Birth name | Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr. |
| Born | February 11, 1936 (age 71) Birthplace disputed.[1] |
| Other name(s) | Buddy |
| Spouse(s) | Judy Carne (June 28, 1963 - 1965) (divorced)
Loni Anderson (April 29, 1988 - March 7, 1995) (divorced) |
| Official site | http://www.burtreynolds.com |
| Notable roles | "Lewis Medlock" in Deliverance "Paul Crewe" in The Longest Yard "Bo "Bandit" Darville" in Smokey and the Bandit "J.J. McClure" in The Cannonball Run "Jack Horner" in Boogie Nights |
| Academy Awards | |
|---|---|
| 1998-Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Boogie Nights (1997) | |
| Emmy Awards | |
| 1991-WON - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for: Evening Shade (1990) | |
Burt Reynolds (born Burton Leon Reynolds Jr.[2] on February 11, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated Emmy Award-winning American actor. Some of his best-remembered roles include Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Paul Crewe in the original version of The Longest Yard, Bo 'Bandit' Darville in the hit film Smokey and the Bandit, J.J. McClure in The Cannonball Run and Jack Horner in Boogie Nights.
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[edit] Biography
Burt has stated on various talk shows over the years that he was born in Waycross, Georgia[3][4][5] to Fern and Burton Leon Reynolds. His mother was a nurse, and his father was a police officer. The young Reynolds spent only a few years in the small Georgia town before his family moved to Riviera Beach, Florida. Reynolds used to be one of America's most recognizable film and television personalities. With more than 90 feature film and 200 television episode credits, he was the number-one box-office attraction for five straight years (1978-82), with vehicles like Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run. In a 1972 article, where Time magazine dubbed him the Frog Prince of Hollywood he makes references to his Cherokee and Italian heritage.[6]
[edit] Early life
Burt was born to Burton Leon Reynolds, of half-Cherokee Indian[7] and half-Irish descent,[citation needed] and Fern, who was of Italian[8] descent. The Reynolds were living in Lansing, Michigan when Burt Senior was drafted into the United States Army in 1941. Burt Junior, his mother and his sister joined Burt Senior at Fort Leonard Wood, where they lived for two years. Burt Junior has stated that his first memories are of playing in the Ozark woods at Fort Leonard Wood. When Burt Senior was sent to Europe, the family returned to Lansing, Michigan. After a short while, the Reynolds family moved to northern Michigan, across the road from his maternal grandparents' farm. Burt Junior started attending school in Merritt, Michigan, where he felt he did not belong among the Native American, farm and backwoods children who made up most of the student body.[9]
Burt Senior was discharged from the Army in late 1945. In early 1946, while Burt Junior's parents were on a second honeymoon in Florida, Burt Senior was offered a job as general contractor for a new housing development in Riviera Beach, Florida. Burt Junior moved to Riviera Beach with his parents, while his sister stayed in Michigan to finish the school year. The Reynolds at first lived in a mobile home, but Burt Senior bought the first house that was completed in the new subdivision.[10]
Burt Junior 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.[11]
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.[12]
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.[13]
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.[14]
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.[15]
[edit] College
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 Southern Conference 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.[16]
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.[17]
[edit] Career
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 woking 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.[18]
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.[19]
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 woking as a dockworker that Reynolds was offered $150 to jump through a glass window on a live television show.[20]
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 was in Deliverance in 1972. It made him a star.
That same year, Reynolds gained notoriety when he posed in the April (Vol. 172, No. 4) issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine. It is said to be the first American magazine centerfold of a (near) nude male.[citation needed]
In 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!"
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). The bad press from his divorce from actress Loni Anderson caused Reynolds' already slowing career to nosedive.[citation needed] 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 in his role in Good Will Hunting.
In early 2000, he created and toured Burt Reynolds' One Man Show. 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.
Reynolds earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame which he received on March 15, 1978. He starred in the audio book version of The Worst Case Scenario Handbook. In May 2006, Reynolds began appearing in Miller Lite beer commercials.
[edit] Southern Filmmaking
Although Reynolds had made eleven movies before starring in the film adaptation of the novel Deliverance 1972 by James Dickey, his performance in that film as Lewis, the macho Atlanta businessman, 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 movies 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.[21]
[edit] Personal life
At various points in his life, Reynolds was romantically involved with Dinah Shore, Sally Field, and Chris Evert.[22] Reynolds was married to actress/comedienne Judy Carne from 1963 to 1965, and actress Loni Anderson from 1988 to 1993. E! Online reports that he dated Kate Edelman Johnson from 2003 to 2005.[23] He once stated in an interview that both he and adopted son Quintin are 1/4 Cherokee.[citation needed]
His autobiography, titled My Life, was published in 1994.
[edit] Sports Team Owner
On July 3, 1982 Burt 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 (1982-1985), which was the entire length that the USFL was in existence. Ironically the team name was the Bandits. 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.
[edit] Honorary Recognitions
Reynolds has received a number of honorary recognitions over the years, mostly keys to various cities, or deputy badges from being deputized.
- Keys to the cities of: Hollywood, FL / Miami Beach, FL / Ocala, FL / Orlando, FL / Palm Beach County, FL / West Palm Beach, FL/ Buena Park, CA / Oxnard, CA / Savannah, GA / Niagara Falls, NY / Clark County, NV / Piggott, AR
- Deputy Sheriff Badges: Leon County, FL / Tallahassee, FL / Tampa, FL / Mitchell County, GA / Ramsey County, Minnesota / Hawaii / South Carolina / Warrensville TWP, OH / Arizona / Buffalo City Police, NY / Jackson County / Jefferson Parish, LA / Los Angeles County, CA / Lanville County, TX
[edit] Awards/Achievements
- 1978 Star for (Motion Pictures) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame At 6838 Hollywood Blvd.[24]
- National Association of Theater Owners No.1 box-office star for five straight years (1978-82)
- 1987 Eastman Kodak Second Century Award
- 1991 Honored with the American Cancer Society's Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2000 Children at Heart Award[25]
- 2003 Atlanta IMAGE Film and Video Award[26]
- AWARDS WON
- Emmy Awards
- 1991 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
for: Evening Shade (1990)
- Golden Globes, USA
- 1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- 1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Comedy/Musical for: Evening Shade (1990)
- 1991 Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series
- 1984 Favorite Motion Picture Actor Tied with Clint Eastwood.
- 1983 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
- 1983 Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer
- 1982 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
- 1982 Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer
- 1980 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
- 1979 Favorite Motion Picture Actor
- 1979 Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer
- American Movie Awards
- 1980 Favorite Film Star - Male
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
- 1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- 1997 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- 1997 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
- 1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- 1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- 1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- 1998 Best Ensemble Cast for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- Online Film Critics Society Awards
- 1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- Viewers for Quality Television Awards
- 1991 Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series for: Evening Shade (1990)
- Crystal Reel Awards
- 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama for: Boogie Nights (1997)
- ShoWest Convention, USA
- 1998 Supporting Actor of the Year
- 1990 Golden Boot
- National Association of Theater Owners
- 1980 Male Star of the Year Award
- 1978 Male Star of the Year Award
- 1997 Worst Screen Couple for: Striptease (1996)
- 1994 Award Worst Actor for: Cop and ½ (1993)
[edit] Filmography
- Angel Baby (1961)
- Armored Command (1961)
- Operation C.I.A. (1965)
- Navajo Joe (1966)
- Blade Rider, Revenge of the Indian Nations (1966)
- 100 Rifles (1969)
- Sam Whiskey (1969)
- Impasse (1969)
- Shark! (1969)
- Skullduggery (1970)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Fuzz (1972)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) (Cameo)
- Shamus (1973)
- White Lightning (1973)
- The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
- The Longest Yard (1974)
- At Long Last Love (1975)
- W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
- Lucky Lady (1975)
- Hustle (1975)
- Silent Movie (1976) (Cameo)
- Gator (1976) (also director)
- Nickelodeon (1976)
- Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
- Semi-Tough (1977)
- The End (1978) (also director)
- Hooper (1978) (also producer)
- Starting Over (1979)
- Rough Cut (1980)
- Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
- The Cannonball Run (1981)
- Paternity (1981)
- Sharky's Machine (1981) (also director)
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
- Best Friends (1982)
- Stroker Ace (1983)
- Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)
- The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
- Cannonball Run II (1984)
- City Heat (1984)
- Southern Voices, American Dreams (1985) (documentary)
- Stick (1985) (also director)
- Uphill All the Way (1986) (cameo)
- Sherman's March (1986) (documentary)
- Heat (1986)
- Malone (1987)
- Rent-A-Cop (1988)
- Switching Channels (1988)
- Physical Evidence (1989)
- Breaking In (1989)
- All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) (voice)
- Modern Love (1990)
- The Player (1992) (Cameo)
- Cop and a 1/2 (1993)
- A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
- The Maddening (1995)
- Frankenstein and Me (1996)
- Citizen Ruth (1996)
- Striptease (1996)
- Mad Dog Time (1996)
- Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
- Bean (1997)
- Boogie Nights (1997)
- Crazy Six (1998)
- Waterproof (1999)
- The Hunter's Moon (1999)
- Pups (1999)
- Big City Blues (1999)
- Stringer (1999)
- Mystery, Alaska (1999)
- The Crew (2000)
- The Last Producer (2000) (also director)
- Driven (2001)
- Tempted (2001)
- Hotel (2001)
- The Hollywood Sign (2001)
- On Heart and Kidneys (2001)
- Snapshots (2002)
- Time of the Wolf (2002)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) (voice)
- Hard Ground (2003)
- The Librarians (2003)
- 4th and Life (2003) (documentary)
- Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003)
- Without a Paddle (2004)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
- The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
- Cloud 9 (2006)
- End Game (2006)
- Forget About It (2006)
- Grilled (2006)
- Broken Bridges (2006)
Upcoming:
- Deal (2006)
- Randy and the Mob (2006)
- Delgo (2007) (voice)
- In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
[edit] TV work
- Riverboat (cast member from 1959-1960)
- Gunsmoke (cast member from 1962-1965)
- Hawk (1966) (canceled after 17 episodes)
- Fade-In (1968)
- 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)
Reynolds also appeared on the World Wrestling Federation's Wrestlemania X in 1994, appearing as guest ring announcer.
[edit] Talk/Variety Show Appearances
Reynolds' many talk and variety show appearances include
- 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[27] (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 (2002)
- Emeril (2001)
- Inside the Actors Studio (2001)
- Larry King Live[28] (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 (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)
[edit] Notes
- ^ While most sources give Burt Reynolds' birthplace as Waycross, Georgia(Birthplace. The Biography Channel.), Reynolds himself said on Dinah Shore, Carol Burnett, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas and Johnny Carson he was born in Waycross, Georgia. It is written in Reynolds autobiography that he was born in his parents' home on Donora Street, but it does not say where. There is a Donora Street Lansing, Michigan and a Donora Drive inWaycross, Georgia. Reynolds. P. 10.
- ^ Birthname. Hollywood.com.
- ^ Birthplace. Georgia Encyclopedia.
- ^ Birthplace. Chicago Sun-Times (article from 2007).
- ^ Birthplace. Biography Channel.
- ^ Birthplace. TIME Magazine (article from 1972).
- ^ Grandmother-Cherokee. TIME Magazine (article from 1972).
- ^ Mother-Italian. TIME Magazine (article from 1972).
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 5-12
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 14-7
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17-8
- ^ Reynolds. Pp.18-9
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17, 22-4
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17, 27-8
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 17, 33-7, 41-4
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 49-56
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 57-9
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 59-63.
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 63-5.
- ^ Reynolds. Pp. 65-7.
- ^ Southern Filmmaking. The Georgia Encyclopedia.
- ^ Chris. Allmovie.com.
- ^ Kate. E!.
- ^ Walk of Fame. Wire Image.
- ^ 2000 Children at Heart. TV.com.
- ^ 2003 Atlanta Image Award. The New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- ^ Transcript. PBS.
- ^ Transcript. CNN.
[edit] References
- Reynolds, Burt. 1994. My Life. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6130-4
- Georgia Encyclopedia
- The Biography Channel
- TIME Magazine (article from Monday, Aug.21, 1972)
- Chicago Sun-Times (article from Feb 7, 2007)
- Yahoo Movies
- MSN Movies
- AOL Movies
- Yahoo TV
- Filmbug
- Georgia Monthly
- Answer.com
- Starpulse
- Celebrity Wonder
- IMDb
- NNDB
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- MSN Encarta
- CNN
- New York Times
- State Handbook & Guide Resources
- Turner Classic Movies
- AMC tv
- A&E tv
- E!
- Hollywood.com
- Allmovie.com
- TV.com
- FYE
- Fandango
- Netflix
- USFL Owners
- eBay
- Channel 4 (UK television)
- Sky Movies
- Tribute Entertainment Group
- eNewsReference
- Yahoo Shopping
- Matchflick
- website from Norway
- Trivia Tribute
- LAMP Travel Series
- Infoplease.com
- Palm Beach InterContinental Hotels Group
[edit] External links
- Reynolds' official website
- Watch Burt Reynolds movie, Shark!
- Burt Reynolds & Friends Museum
- Dutch-Burt: Unofficial Dutch Burt Reynolds Site
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