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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. Reyn…
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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.
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2026
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
Norwood, Where Legends Were Born
Movie Himself
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2025
Breakdown: 1975
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview
Movie Self
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2023
Commitment to Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Movie Money Confidential
Movie Self
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2021
Defining Moments
Movie Chester
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2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
I Am Burt Reynolds
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
An Innocent Kiss
Movie Grandpa Barnes
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2018
The Last Movie Star
Movie Vic Edwards
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2017
Shadow Fighter
Movie Paddy Grier
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2017
Henri
Movie George Duncan
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2017
Miami Love Affair
Movie Robert
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2017
Steve
TV show Self
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2017
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Movie Self
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2017
In Sanity, Florida
TV show Burt Reynolds, retired movie star
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2017
Apple of My Eye
Movie Charlie
- 2017
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2016
Shangri-La Suite
Movie Narrator
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2016
The American West
TV show Self
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2016
Pocket Listing
Movie Ron Glass
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2016
The Bandit
Movie Self
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2016
Hollow Creek
Movie Seagrass Lambert
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Listen to Me Marlon
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
A Magic Christmas
Movie Buster the Dog (voice)
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2014
Category 5
Movie Pops
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2014
Hamlet & Hutch
Movie Papa Hutch
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2012
Fast N' Loud
TV show Self
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2011
Reel Love
Movie Wade Whitman
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2011
Not Another Not Another Movie
Movie C.J. Waters
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2010
Conan
TV show Self
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2010
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
Movie (archive footage)
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2009
According to Dom
Movie Self
- 2009
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2009
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
Movie Self
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2009
30 for 30
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