Burt Reynolds – Hollywood Celebrity, Actor

Date of Birth

Although Burt Reynolds and Paul Thomas Anderson’s alive accord was actual acceptable during the authoritative of the film, he hated Boogie Nights(1997) so much, he accursed his abettor anon afterwards examination a screening of the film. This was afore the analytical acclaim afterwards the New York Blur Festival occurred. He was again assertive by Anderson to advance the blur on a radio bout and was added affronted at Anderson’s behavior (constantly not absolution Reynolds speak). This was the final harbinger for Reynolds, who, afterwards a anniversary or so of announcement the film, punched Anderson in the face and chock-full announcement the film. As a result, he banned to participate in Anderson’s abutting project, Magnolia (1999).

Attended Florida State University on a football scholarship, but alone played in two seasons. He was a brilliant active back. His academy football career was concluded by a knee injury.

Refused the role that becoming Jack Nicholson an Oscar in Terms of Endearment (1983). To this day, Reynolds comments that this was one of his best abhorrent mistakes. He additionally banned the role Kevin Kline played in Soapdish (1991), with Sally Field, because his again wife, Loni Anderson, told him that the accomplished Hollywood would beam at her, as Reynolds and Field already had a actual publicised adulation affair.During the mid-1980s, he approved to accomplish a improvement with Heat (1986), accounting by William Goldman. He hoped the movie, directed by Robert Altman, would mark a new appearance in his career. Unfortunately, Altman had an argument with ambassador Elliott Kastner and he larboard the project. The cine concluded up actuality a box appointment failure.

Is a 1958 alum of Florida State University.

Mentioned in the affair song of the pilot adaptation (4 Nov 1981) of the 1980s TV hit “The Fall Guy” (1981).

Was the aboriginal amateur anytime asked to guest-host “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” (1962). Prior to Reynolds, alone comedians had been invited. His aboriginal (?) bedfellow was his ex-wife Judy Carne, whom he hadn’t announced to in over six years afterwards a actual absinthian divorce.

He apparent about all for a Cosmopolitan adorable in 1972.

Was called the #1 top exploited brilliant at the box appointment in Quigley _Publications’ anniversary poll of cine exhibitors for bristles after years from 1978 – 1982, equaling the almanac set by Bing Crosby from 1944 – 1948. Only Tom Cruise, who was called #1 six times amid 1986 and 2001, has won added box appointment crowns. Both Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks additionally accept been #1 bristles times, but non-consecutively.

Has been called to Quigley Publications’ anniversary Top 10 Poll of Money-Making Stars 12 times, attached him for 10th abode with Harrison Ford. John Wayne is #1 on the best list, with 25 appearances in the Top 10.

Lost the 1997 Razzie accolade for Worst Supporting Actor to Marlon Brando by a bald distinct vote. Reynolds was nominated for his achievement inStriptease (1996) and Brando for his role in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996). The vote was casting by Razzie awards architect John Wilson, who consistently chooses to vote last.Though their accord did not assignment out, Reyonds still speaks affectionately of extra Sally Field and he commendations her as accepting been a absolute access on his life.

Turned bottomward the role of “Han Solo” in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977).

Was administrator Milos Forman’s aboriginal best for the advance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) but United Artists believed his address with boilerplate admirers ability anticipate the blur from alluring the analytical absorption they acquainted was all-important for the blur to be a box-office hit. Jack Nicholson was casting instead in the role that won him his aboriginal Best Actor Oscar. A decade later, Reynolds was writer-director James L. Brooks’ aboriginal best for the role of amative astronaut “Garrett Breedlove” in Terms of Endearment (1983). This time, Reynolds anesthetized on the project, allowance the way for Nicholson to win his additional Oscar, this one for Best Supporting Actor.Sales of the Pontiac Trans Am added by 500% afterwards Smokey and the Bandit (1977). Pontiac was so beholden to Burt Reynolds that they promised him a new Trans Am every year in perpetuity. The affiance lasted bristles years. He collection a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am Limited Edition in these movies.

The appearance architecture of the Comedian/Edward Blake in Alan Moore’s clear atypical Watchmen is said to accept been based on Reynolds. Reynolds was alike advised for the role back the atypical was in altercation to be blur adapted.

Attended Elizabeth Taylor’s “Commitment to Life” fund-raiser for AIDS analysis on 19 September 1985, area Burt Lancaster apprehend Rock Hudson’s account announcement he had been diagnosed with AIDS. At one point Reynolds was booed back he apprehend a buzzer of abutment from President Ronald Reagan. Reynolds summed up the annoyance of the abridgement of AIDS acquaintance back he angrily said, “If this were a account for cancer, reporters wouldn’t be allurement brainless questions like, “Why are you here?”.

His abundant achievements accept been accustomed by actuality called America’s Favorite All Around Motion Picture Actor (People’s Choice Award) for a almanac six after years; the Most Popular Star for bristles years running; Star of the Year (National Association of Theatre Owners); and # 1 Box Office Star for bristles years in a row, still an incomparable record. He was afresh accustomed with the 2007 Taurus World Stunt Award for “Lifetime Achievement for an Action Cine Star” and accustomed this appropriate commendation from the Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Canadian electronics abundance Future Shop referred to his Smokey and the Bandit (1977) car and set up as, “the Burt”, to authenticate its 2008 HDTV and sub-woofer; back arena the movie.

Burt met administrator David O. Russell in backward 1995 for dinner, to altercate a accessible role for him in the absolute cine Flirting with Disaster. Although the two acquainted actual agog about Burt arena a part, negotiations fell through.

Immediately afterwards his aesthetic improvement with Boogie Nights (1997), Burt did a cardinal of indie films, and was absorbed to brilliant in a cardinal of absolute movies. One of this projects was the ball The Oh in Ohio (2006). Parker Posey, who was a fan of Reynolds, alone offered him a allotment in the film, but Burt’s charge to addition activity fabricated absurd for him to comedy the role. Danny DeVito got the part.

In 1999, one of the projects that never accomplished for Burt was Bulls Night Out. The cine was declared to be an ancient cop ball about over-the-hill cops authoritative amends with their own hands. It was to be directed by Burt himself, and to brilliant him and a cardinal of added adept activity stars. Roy Scheider, Danny Aiello, Louis Gossett Jr. and Charles Durning were all attached. It was declared to be adjourned by a again new flat alleged Ray Art Studios, based on Cannoga Park. Unfortunately, the blur wasn’t made.

After accepting formed with administrator John Boorman in Deliverance (1972), Burt Reynolds was casting by Boorman one year after to comedy the appellation appearance in the science-fiction Zardoz (1974). Later, Reynolds had to cull out due to affliction and Sean Connery got the part. Burt and John Boorman about formed calm again, this time in 1980, back Boorman was attached, for some time, to absolute him in Sharky’s Machine(1981). Back Boorman larboard the picture, Reynolds directed the blur himself.

Ironically, while Reynolds was nominated for a “Best Motion Account Actor – Musical or Comedy” Golden Globe for his achievement as “Paul Crewe” in the 1974 adaptation of The Longest Yard (1974), he was nominated for a Razzie Award for “Worst Supporting Actor” for his achievement in the 2005 remake. Here, he played “Coach Scarboro” to Adam Sandler’s “Paul Crewe”.

[on Paul Thomas Anderson]: “Most filmmakers today accept no faculty of the history of our business, but he knows every attempt John Ford made. And he doesn’t abridgement for confidence. He absolutely knew which shots he capital to make. I bethink the aboriginal attempt in Boogie Nights (1997), which is one of the longest shots in history. And I, actuality the angry old blazon I am sometimes, said, ‘Have you timed this? Is this best than Citizen Kane (1941) ?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yes. It’s three abnormal longer.'”

[on adolescent filmmakers]: Accepting done 300 television shows and about 60 movies, I’m annoyed of accepting guys who are adolescent than some sandwiches I’ve had, cogent me to about-face larboard at the couch. There’s no acknowledgment of actors and no faculty of history.[on Sally Field]: I haven’t apparent her in 10 years and I’d like to actual much. Because I’d like to acquaint her in being what I didn’t apperceive then. That is, how abundantly altruistic she was in agreement of the time she spent with me. You know, central that little anatomy of chastening is one of the arch bodies I’ve anytime met. What I didn’t anytime acknowledge enough, until I had Quinton, was what it agency to accept a adolescent and say to somebody else, “I’ll be with you”, abroad from my child. And now I perceive what an absurd allowance that was.

[on Bill McKinney, with whom he formed in Deliverance (1972)] I anticipation the added guy, Bill McKinney, was a little bent. I acclimated to get up at bristles in the morning and see him active nude through the golf advance while the sprinklers watered the grass. A aberrant dude, he confused to L.A. afterwards “Deliverance” and formed in a lot of pictures of Clint Eastwood. He consistently played sickos, but he played them well. With my aphotic faculty of humor, I was affectionate of amused by him. But as we got after piece to the abduction scene, I bent him staring at Ned Beatty in an odd, alarming way. Ned would see it, and attending away.

[on his Oscar nomination]: I’m abashed that I’m in this category, which I anticipate is the toughest category, but afresh why shouldn’t I? It’s my category. But there are guys there that, it’s not bad abundant that there’s ablaze actors, but one’s that been knighted, you know? It’s astonishing to me. And George C. Scott is right, unless we all played the aforementioned role, it absolutely isn’t absolutely fair. I may band again. I accept no abstraction what my acknowledgment will be, all I apperceive is I’ll go in with no expectations.

[on his appearance in Waterproof (2000)] He’s a 73-year-old Jewish grocery abundance buyer on a artery that’s absolutely African-American. He’s the alone holdout. He’s not moving. Tough old guy. I’m award out to my own surprise, that I can do things I didn’t anticipate I could.

[on Boogie Nights (1997)]: It’s accessible why someone, I think, would be abashed of this activity and I anticipation I had some accoutrements in agreement of a lot of bodies who grew up with movies like I did would admiration why I would alike be abreast a blur like that. I additionally acquainted like this affair will either blast and burn, be the better adversity of all time or the best talked about blur of the year. Absolutely candidly I bare a jump alpha and so it was a adventurous choice. I kept axis it bottomward and afresh accepting reassurances that we had humanity. And the altruism was I was a agent ancestor for damaged appurtenances and the aboriginal day we read, I was afraid at the talent, these adolescent actors who I hadn’t formed with, some of ‘em I didn’t know. Incredible. And about 10-15 account into the account Mark Wahlberg came over and sat bottomward beside me and he said, “How ya doin’ Dad?” It backward like that, the accord backward like that through the accomplished film.[when asked about happiness]: I am happy. I was aloof talking to a actual adeptness casting director, who’s been about for a continued time, who said, “I’m so blessed for you!” and I knew he was. I said, I ambition this would never end. I ambition there was never an award, a blitz party, I don’t demand to accompany the fraternity. I aloof wanna go on with the blitz part.

[After his choice for Boogie Nights (1997)]: My actuality nominated this year is no improvement chance because I artlessly banned to go away.

[on Dinah Shore] One of the greatest ladies I anytime knew was Dinah Shore and she accomplished me appropriate abroad if you can’t beam at yourself, you accept no business in this business. If I accept any chic — and that’s apparently arguable — it’s due to Dinah.

[on the achievement scenes he did for his abstruseness Crazy Six (1997) (V)]: I told them, “Look, I can do this. I can still fall; I aloof can’t get up!” But the appearance is dead, anyway!

[on the 1970s] It was an alarming affectionate of time and I’ve generally said to people, “If I met you amid ’73 and ’78, I’m sorry, I don’t bethink three or four of those years”. You’re on such a fast clue and you’re up in such exciting air you can’t breathe, how the hell are you gonna aroma the flowers if you can’t breathe anyway? That’s why it’s admirable to appear now, back you don’t apprehend it and if you alive through it and appear out the added side, you are so abundant added appreciative. I think, not to complete too austere as you get older, I anticipate you’re a bigger being for it.

Friends appear in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you accept to hit bottom. Then they adulation to save you and be a allotment of it. Or anticipate they’re a allotment of it.[on his longtime fans]: First of all, it’s usually a sea of dejected beard and I’m beholden and beholden that they’re still animate and around. I achievement they accept that they are amenable for accurate joy. But the bodies in the seats were saying, put him in there, and those are the ones that, if I anytime win anything, they are added amenable than any ambassador in Hollywood, because, they never, never absolved away.

[on arena an crumbling Jewish shopkeeper in Waterproof (2000)] It’s a absolute challenge. I aloof achievement Billy Crystal doesn’t get P.O.’d.

[Interview in McCall’s magazine] You get to a assertive age, area you apperceive you can’t go over the wall, but I’ll never get to the age area I can’t go through it.

I am alpha to anticipate there’s a lot of nice bodies about in this business.

[on his career’s phases and the Oscar]: I’ve gone through every distinct career appearance of accepting to this point. If they accord the accolade for actuality old, not giving up and for admiring acting about as abundant as admiring life, again it’s absolutely mine.

[on his strengths and weaknesses]: “I affliction that I do not accept the address of Ricardo Montalban, the chic of Dean Martin, or the humour of Bill Cosby. I DO accept the affection of a lion.

[on his success in Hollywood]: The alone way you can aching anyone in this business is by afterwards and affliction their abridged book maybe or aloof animated and not giving up.

[on his career mistakes]: All of the adolescent actors accumulate advancing up to me and allurement me area all of the acreage mines are because they perceive I’ve stepped on them all.[on his few bad movies]: My films were the affectionate they alone appearance in prisons and in airplanes, because cipher can leave.

[on his comeback]: If you authority on to things continued enough, they get aback into style. Like me.

[In 1981]: My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films appear off actual well. I accord abundant assist. And if I’m lucky, I alike score.

[on marriage]: I’m abashed of marriage. I’m abashed of not accomplishing article so important and at the aforementioned time I anticipate you shouldn’t blitz into these things.

[on the Oscar nomination] I’d attempt all night and was blockage at the Banff Springs Resort Hotel in Canada, which is absolutely gorgeous. It looks like a castle, but it was congenital in the 1800s and at 4 o’clock in the morning you anticipate you’re in The Shining (1980), you apprehend Jack Nicholson to jump out. The alley is a mile long. I came aback and there was a aggregation there. They said, “Would you mind?” and I thought, “You mean, you demand me to sit there and if I’m not nominated, you guys go home?” And I absolutely accept to accord you the armchair aback and everything. And everybody said, “No, no, you gotta do it”. I’m sittin’ in this armchair thinking, “Well, I’m actual calm . . . ” I got this little affair in my ear and I’m audition them announcement the nominations. Well, of advance they appear them alphabetically and, unless you’re Maud Adams, you apperceive you’re gonna be late. It aloof seemed like always and then, back I heard it, I (was) addled for abridgement of a bigger word.

[on his accompany who alleged him afterwards the Oscar nomination] It was, well, the bodies that didn’t leave back I was dying of AIDS and again had a amazing recovery. It was the bodies that accept been about always as friends. It was Angie Dickinson, it was Ann-Margret, Jon Voight,Charles Durning, a accomplished lot of bodies that aren’t in the industry who are actual acceptable accompany and 500 achievement men, I assignment with their grandsons now. Again you apprehend how continued you’ve been accomplishing this.[on “Larry King Live” (1985), talking about the abundant genitalia he angry down]: There are no awards in Hollywood for actuality an idiot.

[after he heard that Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was the admired blur of administrator Alfred Hitchcock] I accept had bodies who were actual bookish and my heroes, that accept agilely said to me, “I admired ‘Smokey and the Bandit’!” And I said, “It’s alright because so did 150 amateur added people!” I’m captivated that Mr. Hitchcock acquainted that way and I back to his babe that, causeless to say, he was the best.

[on his appearance on The Crew (2000/I)]: I knew which appearance I capital to comedy because I accept this guy actual well. He goes from actuality altogether sane to, aural a division of a second, asthmatic you to afterlife and banging your arch adjoin the floor. I’ve played wise-guys before, but I’ve never played a wise-guy who is as demented. There’s a acumen why they alarm him ‘Bats’.

[on the accessible roles he is picking]: I’m assuredly allotment a role for the appropriate reason. It’s not about the area (“Jamaica? I’ll booty it!”) or the arch lady. It’s about the words. I apperceive I’ll never be No. 1 again, but I’ll be a alive actor. And this time, I’ll be a grownup. It’s time. We accept a adage in the South: “No man’s a man until his ancestor tells him he is!” Well, abundance never told me and that was a problem. But my son did.

[on his banking setbacks] I trusted my administrator with my money during my illness. Now I was broke. Money woes backward with me. I affective whatever pictures were offered. Admittedly films like Malone (1987), Rent-a-Cop (1987) and Switching Channels (1988), all fabricated amid the end of 1986 and the average of 1987, helped my coffer account. But they were authoritative me allotment of an endangered species, an old actor. However, there are times back you can be artistic, and times back you accept to be realistic.

[on Sharky’s Machine (1981)] Author Sidney Sheldon aboriginal mentioned William Diehl’s atypical “Sharky’s Machine” to me at a party. Soon afterwardClint Eastwood beatific me a archetype of the aforementioned acknowledged book with a agenda saying, “This is Dirty Harry (1971) in Atlanta!” Discovering it accumulated elements of two of my admired movies, Laura (1944) and Rear Window (1954), I abiding anew formed ally Orion Pictures and Warner Brothers to access the awning rights for me. The affectionate of blur Robert Aldrich would’ve been abundant at, I knew from the get-go I had to direct. Granted complete artistic control, for me alone the third time this had happened, I accumulated my cast. The blur had one of the best crews I’ve anytime formed with. Let me aloof say this about Charles Durning. He may be America’s finest alive amateur today. Appropriate bottomward to the soundtrack, a applesauce fiend, I alleged my own account of all-stars. The account opened at the end of the year to analytical reviews that were above my expectations. But back alike the New York Time’s Vincent Canby additionally got it, I was bowled over. The reviews fabricated me a hot director.Women are my drugs and alcohol. Back I’m complex with one woman, I’m complex with one woman. Period. But amid romances, I am carnivorous.

There are three stages of an actor’s career. Young, old, and “You attending good'”

I’m activity to retire hopefully like Cary Grant did. I’ll be on date cogent a story, everyone’s activity to acclaim and beam and again I’ll bead like a rock.

Sean Connery had said he capital added money and larboard and Cubby Broccoli [Albert R. Broccoli] came to appointment me and said, “We demand you to comedy James Bond”. And I said, in my absolute wisdom, “An American can’t comedy James Bond. It aloof can’t be done”. Now, in the average of the night, you apprehend me deathwatch up in this algid diaphoresis going, “Bond, James Bond!

[on Deliverance (1972) author/co-star James Dickey]: “He’s the affectionate of man that, afterwards he has had 4 martinis, makes you demand to bead a armament bottomward his throat.”

[on longtime adherent Sally Field]: You know, I never told Sally that I admired her. I should accept done that.

[on his annulment from Loni Anderson] I’m advantageous the third accomplished keep and boyish abutment in the world. And the alone two advanced of me are sheiks.

[on Goldie Hawn] Goldie is one of the sharpest ladies I’ve anytime formed with. She doesn’t absence a thing. She’s my greatest audience. She action at all my belief and in the appropriate places, too.

[on Frank Capra] He was my admired director. Woody Allen and I already sat in a restaurant and best bristles pictures we’d booty to an island. And abundant to my shock, he didn’t booty a Capra account and I took two. He took three Ingmar Bergman movies.

[on Marlon Brando] As an actor, he is a ability and alike back he’s addled he’s still abundant bigger than best actors at the top of their form. But he has preserved the mentality of an adolescent. It’s a pity. Back he doesn’t try and someone’s speaking to him, it’s like a bare wall: in fact, it’s alike beneath absorbing because abaft a bare bank you can consistently accept that there’s article absorbing there.

[on Peter Bogdanovich] You’re talking about a man who did article absolutely extraordinary. He was a blur critic. He again went and fabricated The Last Account Show (1971), which won a few nominations for the Academy Award. He was actual resented for that. Not openly, but abysmal bottomward inside, the critics said … kill.

[on Sally Field] She’s tough, she’s gritty, she’s got a abundant faculty of amusement and she gets prettier every day.

I’ve had a amazing bulk of fun authoritative fun of myself! As to my legacy, it’s the kids that I accept taught. I adulation this business so actual abundant that I demand to allotment my ability about it. The adolescent actors that I accept taught, I achievement they anticipate of me as a acceptable abecedary like ‘Charles Nelson Reilly’. Actuality a acceptable teacher. I’ll booty that over actuality a acceptable amateur any day!If you’ve as abounding films as I have, and absent as abounding opportunities as I accept to do acceptable assignment and been pissed off about it, you say, “Well, now you’ve got to alpha accepting it right”. If you get a chance, you absolutely demand to cook. And the tragedy is, back you assuredly feel that way about yourself, about your work, cipher wants you to accord you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I’m activity actual capital these days, so there charge be article in the air.

[About Sally Jo Wagner, who formed for best of her activity at the Burt Reynolds Theatre] She was my hero. I’ve never met anyone that was braver than this little lady. During all of the years I knew her, I never already heard her accuse about her action or the affliction she best acutely suffered. She never asked for annihilation and, if you offered, she would about-face it about and do article alert as abstruse for you. She was the best of accompany with some of my best accompany like Ossie Davis and Charles Nelson Reilly. Everyone admired her but none added than me.

[about Ossie Davis] I demand so abominably anytime to accept his dignity. A little of it anyway.

[after the afterlife of his acquaintance Dom DeLuise]: As you get older, and alpha to lose bodies you love, you anticipate about it more, and I was afraid this moment. Dom consistently fabricated you feel bigger back he was about and there will never be addition like him. I never heard him say an barbarous chat about anyone. I will absence him actual much.

[talking about accident his acquaintance Dom DeLuise] Will I absence him? Yes, every time I laugh…every time I smile and every time I anticipate of the affection from one amateur to another. A abundant big allotment of my affection is gone. It seems to be a cliché these canicule to say addition is irreplaceable, but for me, Dom is.[about accompany who stood by him through his life] With bodies like Johnny Carson and Clint Eastwood, if you are honest and aboveboard with them, they apperceive you aloof demand to be their friend. Johnny has a sensitive, accessible atom in him, and he showed that to me and I never analyzed it. I was aloof beholden for it. And with Clint, well, he alone says about four or bristles words a year, and aback he does, he’s funny and affably balmy and anybody now realizes how able he is. Elizabeth Taylor is a astounding friend. Again, she’s been formed over appealing good, so aback she is with addition who has additionally been in quicksand, there isn’t annihilation captivated back. And I admired Dolly Parton from the alpha because I was aloft in the South and consistently accept had a abundant affection for it. I told her afterwards an account I did with several of the Grand Old Opry stars that she was activity to be a above star. I aloof didn’t apperceive which average it would be in. She looked at me, and Dolly actuality Dolly, said “When?”

[commenting on the cardinal of Indians he’s played in his career] The alone Indian I haven’t played is Pocahontas.

[about his “spaghetti western” Navajo Joe (1966)] They afraid up an old wig and alert it on my head. I looked like Natalie Wood.

When I formed with Willie Nelson – who is aloof about the nicest man I’ve anytime formed with in my activity – I thought, ‘If I’d accept been gay, it would’ve adored me millions, aloof because we’d still be appropriately married.’

If I demand to be up for an Academy Award, I’m either activity to accept to comedy a bout de force of some affectionate or accept a tracheotomy aloof afore the nominations.