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Burt Reynolds. Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor and icon of 1970s American popular culture. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Reynolds first rose to prominence when he starred in television series, such as Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966), and Dan August (1970–1971). He had leading roles in films, such as ...
- He Turned Down Some Major roles.
- He Posed Nude in A 1972 Issue of Cosmopolitan.
- He Turned Down His Oscar-Nominated Role in Boogie Nights. Seven times.
- An On-Set Stunt Caused Him A Life of pain.
- He Pissed Off Elmore Leonard.
- He Dabbled in The Nightclub Business.
- Marlon Brando Was Not A Fan of Reynolds.
- He Released An Album.
- He Didn't Think Deliverance Could Be Re-Made today.
Over the course of a near-60-year career, one is bound to pass on some prime roles. And Reynolds turned down a lot, including (by his own admission in the video above) Han Solo in Star Wars, R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman, and John McClane in Die Hard. Although he doesn't regret that final one: “I don...
It may be common knowledge that Burt Reynolds posed naked in Cosmopolitan. What may be less known is that he regretted that decision. “I’m very embarrassed by it,” Reynolds told Piers Morgan. Editor Helen Gurley Brown asked Reynolds to do the photo shoot after the two appeared together on The Tonight Show. “I thought it would be a kick,” Reynolds s...
Paul Thomas Anderson was adamant that Burt Reynolds play iconoclastic porn producer Jack Horner in his 1997 masterpiece, Boogie Nights, despite Reynolds’s aversion to the material. Anderson asked seven times, and got seven passes from Reynolds. “One night—the eighth time—[Anderson] came to my hotel room,” Reynolds recalled. “And I said, ‘Look, you ...
The 1980s weren’t always kind to Reynolds. "I can't believe I did all those bad films in a row until I looked at the list," he said. During the filming of 1984’s City Heat, Reynolds was struck in the face by a metal chair and shattered his jaw. He developed TMJ as a result of the injury and ended up losing 40 pounds due to his inability to eat soli...
Reynolds was a longtime admirer of writer Elmore Leonard. After reading Leonard’s novel, Stick, Reynolds decided that he wanted to direct and star in the film version. Things did not go well. After watching Reynolds’s first cut of the film, the studio pushed back its release date and forced him to re-shoot the second half of the movie, much to the ...
Burt Reynolds’s foray into the booming 1970s nightclub business was a short-lived one. He opened Burt’s Place in the late 1970s at the Omni International Hotel in downtown Atlanta. The club’s most notable feature was a stained glass dance floorthat featured a rendering of Burt’s face and the words, “Burt’s Joint”—which was odd, considering that was...
Coming up in the movie business, Burt Reynolds was a huge Marlon Brando fan. Brando did not share the sentiment. When Reynolds was being considered for the role of Michael Corleone in 1972’s The Godfather, Brando adamantly declaredthat if Reynolds was given the role, he would remove himself from the project. The rest is history. Brando later saidab...
Hot off his success in Deliverance and his nude spread in Cosmo, a solo album seemed like the next, most Hollywood-appropriate course of action. Reynolds released his debut record, “Ask Me What I Am,” in 1973 and somehow this gem seems to have evaded critics and fans alike. We do know that the album came with a double-sized poster of Reynolds in a ...
“They keep talking about a remake, but I don’t think you could find four actors crazy enough to do it,” Reynolds said. “Not by any stretch of the imagination were we white water experts. We’d quit for the day and come back and practice. We got to the point where we were more proficient, or at least we didn’t get tipped over all the time. I have to ...
Jan 2, 2021 · Burt Reynolds — the iconic actor who dazzled us with his charming smile, trademark bushy mustache, and even hairier chest — died on Sept. 6, 2018 at the age of 82.
- Stassi Reid
Apr 2, 2014 · Burt Reynolds was an award-winning actor who appeared regularly on television for some time before his 1972 appearance in the film Deliverance, which became a breakthrough role. He was a leading ...
Sep 6, 2018 · Obituary: Burt Reynolds. 6 September 2018. Getty Images. Burt Reynolds charmed and swaggered his way to being one of Hollywood's best-known stars. From his early days in a seemingly endless series ...
Sep 6, 2018 · Sep 6, 2018 4:32pm PT. Burt Reynolds: A Movie Star Who Refused to Take Stardom Seriously. By Owen Gleiberman. You could say that no actor ever fitted into his time, or defined it, as ...
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Burt Reynolds. Actor: Boogie Nights. Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a wisecracking, Southern type of "good ol' boy."
