Burt Reynolds : A Tribute to Multi talented Artist : no other Artist involved in so many areas of Arts
10/09/2018
Burt Reynolds : A Tribute to Multi talented Artist : no other Artist involved in so many areas of Arts
*Reynolds in a publicity photo for Dan August (1970)
1. Profile :
Born Burton Leon Reynolds Jr.
February 11, 1936
Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
Died September 6, 2018 (aged 82)
Jupiter, Florida, U.S.
Occupation Actor, director, producer
Years active 1958–2018
Spouse(s) Judy Carne
(m. 1963; div. 1965)
Loni Anderson
(m. 1988; div. 1993)
Children 1
2. Introduction :-
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, director and producer. He first rose to prominence starring in television series such as Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966), and Dan August (1970–1971).
His breakout film role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972). Reynolds played the leading role in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Semi-Tough (1977), Hooper (1978), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982).
After a few box office failures, Reynolds returned to television, starring in the sitcom Evening Shade (1990–1994). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Boogie Nights (1997).
2. Early life :-
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was the son of Harriette Fernette "Fern" (née Miller; 1902–1992) and Burton Milo Reynolds (1906–2002). He had Dutch, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish ancestry, and also claimed Cherokee roots through his father.
During his career, he often claimed to have been born in Waycross, Georgia, although said in 2015 he was actually born in Lansing, Michigan. He was born on February 11, 1936, and in his autobiography stated that Lansing is where his family lived when his father was drafted into the United States Army.
He, his mother, and his sister joined his father at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and lived there for two years. When his father was sent to Europe, the family moved to Lake City, Michigan, where his mother had been raised. In 1946, the family moved to Riviera Beach, Florida. His father became Chief of Police of Riviera Beach, which is city adjacent to the north end of West Palm Beach, Florida.
During 10th grade at Palm Beach High School, Reynolds was named First Team All State and All Southern as a fullback, and received multiple scholarship offers.
3. College :-
After graduating from Palm Beach Community High, he attended Florida State University on a football scholarship and played halfback. While at Florida State, he roomed with college football broadcaster and analyst Lee Corso, and also became a brother of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
He had hoped to be named to All-American teams and have a career in professional football, however he injured his knee in the first game of his sophomore season, and later that year lost his spleen and injured his other knee in a bad car accident. These injuries hampered his abilities on the field, and after being beaten in coverage for the game-winning touchdown in a 7-0 loss to North Carolina State on October 12, 1957, he decided to give up football.
Ending his college football career, Reynolds thought of becoming a police officer, however his father suggested he finish college and become a parole officer. 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, he was in an English class taught by Watson B. Duncan III. Duncan pushed him into trying out for a play he was producing, Outward Bound. He cast him in the lead role based on having heard him read Shakespeare in class, leading to his winning the 1956 Florida State Drama Award for his performance. In his autobiography, he referred to Duncan as his mentor and the most influential person in his life.
4. Career :-
i. Theatre :
The Florida State Drama Award included a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse, a summer stock theatre, 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 possible career. While working there, Reynolds met Joanne Woodward, who helped him find an agent, and was cast in Tea and Sympathy at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. After his Broadway debut in Look, We've Come Through, he received favorable reviews for his performance and went on tour with the cast, driving the bus as well as appearing on stage.
After the tour, Reynolds returned to New York and enrolled in acting classes, along with Frank Gifford, Carol Lawrence, Red Buttons and Jan Murray. After a botched improvisation in acting class, Reynolds briefly considered returning to Florida, but soon gained a part in a revival of Mister Roberts, in which Charlton Heston played the starring role. After the play closed, the director, John Forsythe, arranged a film audition with Joshua Logan for Reynolds. The film was Sayonara (1957). Reynolds was told he could not be in the film because he looked too much like Marlon Brando. Logan advised Reynolds to go to Hollywood, although Reynolds did not feel confident enough to do so. He worked in a variety of jobs, such as waiting tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck and as a bouncer at the Roseland Ballroom. Reynolds wrote that, while working as a dockworker, he was offered $150 to jump through a glass window on a live television show.
5. Early television and Riverboat :-
He began acting on television in the late 1950s, guest starring on shows like Flight, M Squad, Schlitz Playhouse, The Lawless Years and Pony Express.
Reynolds' first big break came when he was cast alongside Darren McGavin in the lead of the TV series Riverboat (1959–61), playing Ben Frazer. According to a contemporary report Reynolds was considered "a double for Marlon Brando. The show went for two seasons but Reynolds quit after only 20 episodes, claiming he did not get along with McGavin or the executive producer, and that he had "a stupid part".
Reynolds returned to guest starring on television shows. As he put it, "I played heavies in every series in town" appearing in episodes of Playhouse 90, Johnny Ringo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Lock Up, The Blue Angels, Michael Shayne, Zane Grey Theater, The Aquanauts and The Brothers Brannagan.
Reynolds made his film debut in the low budget Angel Baby (1961), billed fourth. He followed it with a role in a war film, Armored Command (1961). "It was the one picture that Howard Keel didn't sing on," reminisced Reynolds later. "That was a terrible mistake."
In 1961 he returned to Broadway to appear in Look, We've Come Through under the direction of Jose Quintero, but it only lasted five performances.
Reynolds continued to guest star on shows such as Naked City, Ripcord, Everglades, Route 66, Perry Mason, and The Twilight Zone ("The Bard"). He later said "I learned more about my craft" in these guest shots "than I did standing around and looking virile on Riverboat."
6. Gun smoke :-
In 1962 Dennis Weaver wanted to leave the cast of Gunsmoke, one of the top rated shows in the country. The producers developed a new character, "halfbreed" blacksmith Quint Asper, Reynolds was cast, beating over 300 other contenders. Reynolds announced he would stay on the show "until it ends. I think it's a terrible mistake for an actor to leave a series in the middle of it."
Reynolds wound up leaving Gunsmoke in 1965. He was cast in his first lead in a feature, the low budget action film Operation CIA (1965). He guest starred on Flipper, The FBI and 12 O'Clock High.
7. Hawk and leading roles in films :-
Reynolds was given the title role in a TV series, Hawk (1966–67), playing Native American detective John Hawk. It ran for 17 episodes before being cancelled.
He played another Native American in the spaghetti western Navajo Joe (1966) shot in Spain."It wasn't my favorite picture," he said later. "I had two expressions - mad and madder."
He guest starred on Gentle Ben and made a pilot for a TV series, Lassiter, that was not picked up.
Reynolds then made a series of films in quick succession. Shark! (1968), shot in Mexico, was directed by Sam Fuller who removed his name from it after which its release was held up a number of years. Fade-In which he described as "the best thing I've ever done," was not released for a number of years, and the director Judd Taylor took his name off. Impasse (1969), was a war movie shot in the Philippines. He played the title role Sam Whiskey (1969) which he later claimed was "way ahead of its time. I was playing light comedy and nobody cared."
He supported Jim Brown and Raquel Welch in a Western, 100 Rifles (1969), later saying "I spent the entire time refereeing fights between Jim Brown and Raquel Welch." then Reynolds was in Skullduggery (1970), shot in Jamaica; the director was fired on the first day of filming and replaced by Gordon Douglas. While making these films, Reynolds had been offered a lead role in MASH (1970), but turned it down after "they told me the other two leads would be Barbra Streisand's husband and that tall, skinny guy who was in The Dirty Dozen." Tom Skerritt played the role instead. Reynolds joked that he went on to "those wonderful forgettable pictures I kept making until I suddenly realized I was as hot as Leo Gorcey."
Reynolds was in two TV films Hunters Are for Killing (1970) and Run, Simon, Run (1970). In Hunters his character was originally a Native American, but Reynolds requested this element be changed, feeling he had played it too many times already and it was not needed for the character.
8. Dan August :-
Reynolds played the title character in police drama Dan August (1970–71), produced by Quinn Martin.The series was given a full-season order of 26 episodes based on the reputation of Martin and Reynolds but struggled in the ratings against Hawaii 5-0 and was not renewed.
Albert R. Broccoli asked Reynolds to play James Bond, but he turned that role down, saying "An American can't play James Bond. It just can't be done."
Following the series' cancellation, Reynolds did his first stage play in six years, a production of The Tender Trap at Arlington Park Theatre. He was offered other TV pilots but was reluctant to play a detective again. Around this time he was also offered his own talk show - he had become well known as an entertaining talk show guest, and had guest hosted on the Tonight Show. However he wanted to keep on as an actor.
9. Deliverance and the centrefold :-
Reynolds had his breakout role in Deliverance, directed by John Boorman. "It's the first time I haven't had a script with Paul Newman's and Robert Redford's fingerprints all over it," he joked. "The producers actually came to me first."
"I've waited 15 years to do a really good movie," he said in 1972. "I made so many bad pictures. I was never able to turn anyone down. The greatest curse in Hollywood is to be a well known unknown."
Reynolds also gained notoriety around this time when he began a well publicised relationship with Dinah Shore and after he posed naked in the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan. Reynolds said he did it for "a kick. I have a strange sense of humor" and because he knew he had Deliverance coming out.
Deliverance was a huge commercial and critical success and, along with the talk show appearances, helped establish Reynolds as a star. He was then in Fuzz (1972), reuniting him with Welch, and made a cameo in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972). He also returned to the stage, appearing in The Rainmaker at the Arlington.
Reynolds played the title role in Shamus (1973), a modern day private eye, which was a solid box office success. Reynolds described it as "not a bad film, kind of cute."
He was in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973) co-starring Sarah Miles. The film is best remembered for the scandal during filming where Miles' lover committed suicide; it was a minor hit.
10. White Lightning :-
Another career turning moment in Reynolds' career came when he made the light-hearted car chase film, White Lightning (1973). Reynolds later called it "the beginning of a whole series of films made in the South, about the South and for the South... you could make back the cost of the negative just in Memphis alone. Anything outside of that was just gravy." Car chase films would be Reynolds' most profitable genre. At the end of 1973 Reynolds was voted into the list of the ten most popular box office stars in the US, at number four. He would stay on that list until 1984.
He made a sports comedy with Robert Aldrich, The Longest Yard (1974) which was popular. Aldrich later said "I think that on occasion he's a much better actor than he's given credit for. Not always: sometimes he acts like a caricature of himself."
Reynolds then appeared in two big budget fiascos: At Long Last Love (1975), a musical for Peter Bogdanovich, and Lucky Lady (1975) with Gene Hackman and Liza Minnelli.
More popular was another light hearted car chase film, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), and a tough cop drama with Aldrich, Hustle (1975). He did a cameo for Mel Brooks in Silent Movie (1976).
11. Director :-
Reynolds made his directorial debut in 1976 with Gator, the sequel to White Lightning. "I waited 20 years to do it and I enjoyed it more than anything I've ever done in this business," he said after filming. "And I happen to think it's what I do best."
He was reunited with Bogdanovich for the screwball comedy Nickleodeon (1976), which was a commercial disappointment. Aldrich later commented, "Bogdanovich can get him to do the telephone book! Anybody else has to persuade him to do something. He's fascinated by Bogdanovich. I can't understand it."
12. Smokey and the Bandit and career peak :-
Reynolds had the biggest hit of his career to date with a car chase film Smokey and the Bandit (1977), directed by Hal Needham and co-starring Jackie Gleason and Sally Field.
He followed it with a comedy about football players, Semi-Tough (1977), co-starring Jill Clayburgh and Kris Kristofferson and produced by David Merrick. He then made his second film as director The End (1978), a black comedy, playing a role originally written for Woody Allen.
More popular was a car comedy he made with Needham and Field, Hooper (1978), where he played a stuntman.
Reynolds tried a change of pace with Starting Over (1979), a romantic comedy co-staring Clayburgh and Candice Bergen; it was co-written and produced by James L. Brooks. He played a jewel thief in Rough Cut (1980) produced by Merrick, who fired and then rehired director Don Siegel during filming.
Reynolds had two huge hits with car films directed by Needham, Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) and The Cannonball Run (1981). He did another romantic comedy, Paternity (1981) then directed himself in a tough action film, Sharky's Machine (1981).
Reynolds wanted to try a musical again and so agreed to do The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). It was a hit, was Best Friends (1982) with Goldie Hawn. In 1982 Reynolds was voted the most popular star in the US for the fifth year in a row.
13. Career decline :-
James L. Brooks offered Reynolds the role of astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (1983) but he turned it down to do Stroker Ace (1983), another car chase comedy directed by Needham. The Endearment role went to Jack Nicholson, who went on to win an Academy Award. Reynolds said he made this decision because "I felt I owed Hal more than I owed Jim" but Stroker Ace flopped. Reynolds felt this was a turning point in his career from which he never recovered. "That's where I lost them," he says of his fans.
The Man Who Loved Women (1983), directed by Blake Edwards also flopped. Cannonball Run II (1984), directed by Needham, brought in some money but only half of the original. City Heat (1984), which teamed Reynolds and Eastwood was mildly popular but considered a major box office disappointment.
Reynolds returned to directing with Stick (1985) from an Elmore Leonard novel but it was a critical and commercial failure. So too were three other action films he made: Heat (1986), based on a William Goldman novel, Malone (1987), and Rent-a-Cop (1987) with Liza Minnelli.
Reynolds tried a screwball comedy, Switching Channels (1989), but it was a box office disappointment. Even more poorly received was Physical Evidence (1989), directed by Michael Crichton. Reynolds received excellent reviews for Breaking In (1989) but the commercial reception was poor.
14. Return to TV :-
Reynolds returned to TV series with B.L. Stryker (1989–90). It only ran one season but Evening Shade (1990–94) was a considerable success.
15. Later career :-
After starring in Boogie Nights (1997), Reynolds refused to star in Paul Thomas Anderson's third film, Magnolia (1999). Despite this, Reynolds was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Boogie Nights.
He voiced Avery Carrington in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, released in 2002. He had support parts in Miss Lettie and Me (2003) and Without a Paddle (2004), and two high-profile films: the remake of The Longest Yard (2005) and The Dukes of Hazzard (2005). Reynolds turned in a critically acclaimed performance in the drama The Last Movie Star (2017), one of his last films. In May 2018, he joined the cast for Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but he died before shooting his scenes.
16. Author
Reynolds co-authored the 1997 children's book Barkley Unleashed: A Pirate's Tail, a "whimsical tale [that] illustrates the importance of perseverance, the wonders of friendship and the power of imagination".
16.1 Music :-
In 1973, Reynolds released the album Ask Me What I Am and in 1983 sang along with Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
17. Bankruptcy :-
Despite his lucrative career, in 1996 he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, due in part to an extravagant lifestyle, a divorce from Loni Anderson and failed investments in some Florida restaurant chains. Reynolds emerged from bankruptcy two years later.
18. Personal life :-
Reynolds was married to English actress Judy Carne from 1963 to 1965. He and American singer-actress Dinah Shore were in a relationship in the early 1970s for about five years. He had a relationship from about 1977 to 1982 with American actress Sally Field. Reynolds was married to American actress Loni Anderson from 1988 to 1993. They adopted a son, Quinton. He and Anderson separated after he fell in love with a cocktail waitress, with whom he later traded lawsuits which were settled out of court.
Reynolds' close friends were Johnny Carson, James Hampton, Dom DeLuise, Jerry Reed, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tammy Wynette, Lucie Arnaz, Adrienne Barbeau, Tawny Little, Dinah Shore and Chris Evert.
In the late 1970s, Reynolds opened Burt's Place, a nightclub restaurant in the Omni International Hotel in the Hotel District of Downtown Atlanta, and briefly operated a second version at Lenox Square. He was a life-long fan of American football, a result of his collegiate career, and was a minority owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL from 1982 to 1986. The team's name was inspired by the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy and Skoal Bandit, a primary sponsor for the team as a result of also sponsoring Reynolds' motor racing team.
Reynolds co-owned a NASCAR Winston Cup team, Mach 1 Racing, with Hal Needham, which ran the #33 "Skoal Bandit" car with driver Harry Gant. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Florida State University in 1981 and later endorsed the construction of a new performing arts facility in Sarasota, Florida.He also owned a private theater in Jupiter, Florida, originally named the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater, which later changed to be the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater, with a focus on training young performers looking to enter show business, although, most unfortunately, it closed its doors in 1997 after Reynolds declared bankruptcy.
In 1984, he opened a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, "Burt & Jacks", that he co-owned with Jack Jackson.
While filming City Heat, Reynolds was struck in the face with a metal chair and had temporomandibular joint dysfunction. He lost thirty pounds from not eating. The painkillers he was prescribed led to addiction, which lasted several years. He underwent back surgery in 2009 and a quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery in February 2010.
On August 16, 2011, Merrill Lynch Credit Corporation filed foreclosure papers, claiming Reynolds owed US$1.2 million on his home in Hobe Sound, Florida. He owned the Burt Reynolds Ranch, where scenes for Smokey and the Bandit were filmed and which once had a petting zoo, until its sale during bankruptcy. In April 2014, the 153-acre (62 ha) rural property was rezoned for residential use and the Palm Beach County school system could sell it to residential developer K. Hovnanian Homes. Reynolds also once purchased a mansion on a tract of land in Loganville, Georgia, while married to Loni Anderson.
19. Death :-
Reynolds died at the Jupiter Medical Center on September 6, 2018. He had heart problems for a number of years. He was 82. His ex-wife Loni Anderson issued a statement saying that she and their son Quinton would miss him and "his great laugh."
On the day of Reynolds' death, Antenna TV, which airs The Tonight Show nightly, aired an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from February 11, 1982, featuring an interview and a This Is Your Life-style skit with Reynolds. The local media in Atlanta and elsewhere in the state noted on their television news programs that evening that he was the first to make major films in Georgia, all of which were successful, which helped make the state one of the top filming locations in the country.
20. Filmography :-
Burt Reynolds filmography :
Year Film Title Role Notes
1961 Angel Baby Hoke Adams Film debut
1961 Armored Command Skee
1965 Operation C.I.A. Mark Andrews
1966 Navajo Joe Navajo Joe
1969 100 Rifles Yaqui Joe Herrera
1969 Sam Whiskey Sam Whiskey
1969 Impasse Pat Morrison
1969 Shark! Caine
1970 Skullduggery Douglas Temple
1970 Run, Simon, Run Simon
1972 Fuzz Detective Steve Carella
1972 Deliverance Lewis Medlock
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) Sperm Switchboard Chief
1973 Shamus Shamus McCoy
1973 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing Jay Grobart
1973 White Lightning Gator McKlusky
1974 The Longest Yard Paul "Wrecking" Crewe
1975 At Long Last Love Michael Oliver Pritchard III
1975 W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings W.W. Bright
1975 Lucky Lady Walker Ellis
1975 Hustle Lieutenant Phil Gaines Also executive producer
1976 Silent Movie Himself Cameo
1976 Gator Gator McKlusky Also director
1976 Nickelodeon Buck Greenway
1977 Smokey and the Bandit Bo "Bandit" Darville
1977 Semi-Tough Billy Clyde Puckett
1978 The End Wendell Sonny Lawson Also director
1978 Hooper Sonny Hooper Also producer
1979 Starting Over Phil Potter
1980 Rough Cut Jack Rhodes
1980 Smokey and the Bandit II Bo "Bandit" Darville
1981 The Cannonball Run J.J. McClure
1981 Paternity Buddy Evans
1981 Sharky's Machine Sgt. Thomas Sharky Also director
1982 Six Pack Man walking in front of Brewster and Lila Uncredited cameo[citation needed]
1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd
1982 Best Friends Richard Babson
1983 Stroker Ace Stroker Ace
1983 Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 The Real Bandit Cameo
1983 The Man Who Loved Women David Fowler
1984 Cannonball Run II J.J. McClure
1984 City Heat Mike Murphy
1985 Stick Ernest "Stick" Stickley Also director
1986 Uphill All the Way Gambler Uncredited cameo
1986 Heat Nick "Mex" Escalante
1987 Malone Richard Malone
1988 Rent-a-Cop Tony Church
1988 Switching Channels John L. Sullivan IV
1989 Physical Evidence Joe Paris
1989 Breaking In Ernie Mullins
1989 All Dogs Go to Heaven Charlie B. Barkin Voice
1990 Modern Love Colonel Frank Parker
1992 The Player Himself Cameo
1993 Cop and a Half Nick McKenna
1995 The Maddening Roy Scudder
1996 Citizen Ruth Blaine Gibbons
1996 Striptease Congressman David Dilbeck
1996 Mad Dog Time "Wacky" Jacky Jackson
1997 Meet Wally Sparks Lenny Spencer
1997 Bean General Newton
1997 Boogie Nights Jack Horner
1997 Big City Blues Connor Also co-producer
1999 The Hunter's Moon Clayton Samuels Direct-to-video
1999 Pups Daniel Bender
1999 Mystery, Alaska Judge Walter Burns
2000 Waterproof Eli Zeal
2000 The Crew Joey "Bats" Pistella
2000 The Last Producer Sonny Wexler Also director
2001 Driven Carl Henry
2001 Tempted Charlie LeBlanc
2001 Hotel Flamenco Manager
2001 The Hollywood Sign Kage Mulligan
2003 The Librarians Irish Uncredited
2004 Without a Paddle Del Knox
2005 The Longest Yard Coach Nate Scarborough
2005 The Dukes of Hazzard Boss Hogg
2005 The Legend of Frosty the Snowman Narrator Direct-to-DVD
2006 Cloud 9 Billy Cole Direct-to-DVD
2006 End Game General Montgomery
2006 Forget About It Sam LeFleur
2006 Grilled Goldbluth
2006 Broken Bridges Jake Delton
2007 In the Name of the King King Konreid
2007 Randy and the Mob Elmore Culpepper Uncredited
2008 Deal Tommy Vinson
2008 Delgo Delgo's Father Voice
2008 A Bunch of Amateurs Jefferson Steele
2011 Not Another Not Another Movie C.J. Waters
2014 A Magic Christmas Buster Voice; Direct-to-DVD
2015 Pocket Listing Ron Glass
2015 Hamlet & Hutch Papa Hutch Direct-to-DVD
2016 Hollow Creek Seagrass Lambert Direct-to-DVD
2016 Elbow Grease Grandpa Barnes
2016 Shangri La Suite Narrator
2017 The Last Movie Star Vic Edwards
2017 Miami Love Affair Robert
2018 Defining Moments Chester Posthumous release
21. Television :-
Year Title Role Notes
1958 Flight Captain Sam Allen / Captain Jack Hilyard 2 episodes
1959 M Squad Peter Marashi Episode: "The Teacher"
1959 The Lawless Years Tony Sappio Episode: "The Payoff"
1959 Pony Express Adam Episode: "The Good Samaritan"
1959–60 Riverboat Ben Frazer 20 episodes
1959–60 Playhouse 90 Ace / The Actor 2 episodes
1960 Johnny Ringo Tad Stuart Episode: "The Stranger"
1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Bill Davis Episode: "Escape to Sonoita"
1960 Lock-Up Latchard Duncan Episode: "The Case of Alexis George"
1960–61 The Blue Angels Chuck / Corman 2 episodes
1960–61 The Aquanauts Leo / Jimmy 2 episodes
1961 Ripcord The Assassin Episode: "Crime Jump"
1961 Michael Shayne Jerry Turner Episode: "The Boat Caper"
1961 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Branch Taylor Episode: "Man from Everywhere"
1961 The Brothers Brannagan Abelard Episode: "Bordertown"
1961 Naked City Young Man Episode: "Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon"
1961–62 The Everglades Trask / Lew Johnson 2 episodes
1962 Route 66 Tommy Episode: "Love Is a Skinny Kid"
1962 Perry Mason Chuck Blair Episode: "The Case of the Counterfeit Crank"
1962–65 Gunsmoke Quint Asper 50 episodes
1963 The Twilight Zone Rocky Rhodes Episode: "The Bard"
1965 Branded Red Hand Episode: "Now Join the Human Race"
1965 Flipper Al Bardeman 2 episodes
1965; 1968 The F.B.I. John Duquesne / Michael Murtaugh 2 episodes
1966 Hawk Detective Lt. John Hawk 17 episodes
1967 Gentle Ben Pilot Episode: "Voice from the Wilderness"
1968 Premiere Pete Lassiter Episode: "Lassiter"
1968 Fade In Rob Television film
1970 Love, American Style Stanley Dunbar Episode: "Love and the Banned Book"
1970–71 Dan August Dan August 26 episodes
1986 The Golden Girls Himself Episode: "Ladies of the Evening"
1987–91 Out of This World Troy Garland (voice) 95 episodes
1989–90 B.L. Stryker B.L. Stryker 12 episodes; also co-executive producer and director
1990–94 Evening Shade Wood Newton 98 episodes; also co-executive producer and director
1993 Beverly Hills, 90210 Himself Episode: "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
1993 The Larry Sanders Show Himself Episode: "The Grand Opening"
1993 The Man from Left Field Jack Robinson Television film; also director
1995 Hope and Gloria Himself Episode: "Sisyphus, Prometheus and Me"
1995 Cybill Himself Episode: "The Cheese Stands Alone"
1996 The Cherokee Kid Otter Bob the Mountain Man Television film
1997 King of the Hill M.F. Thatherton (voice) Episode: "The Company Man"
1997 Duckman Judge Keaton (voice) Episode: "Das Sub"
1998 Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms CIA Deputy Director Mentor Television film
1998 Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business CIA Deputy Director Mentor Television film
1998 Hard Time Detective Logan McQueen Television film; also director
2001 Emeril Himself Episode: "The Sidekick"
2002 The X-Files Mr. Burt Episode: "Improbable"
2002 Miss Lettie and Me Samuel Madison Television film
2003 Hard Ground John 'Chill' McKay Television film
2003–04 Ed Russ Burton 2 episodes
2005 The King of Queens Coach Walcott Episode: "Hi, School"
2005 Robot Chicken J.J. McClure / Himself (voices) Episode: "Gold Dust Gasoline"
2005 Duck Dodgers Royal Serpenti (voice) Episode: "Master & Disaster/All in the Crime Family"
2006 Freddie Carl Crane Pool Episode: "Mother of All Grandfathers"
2006–07; 2009 My Name Is Earl Chubby 3 episodes
2010 Burn Notice Paul Anderson Episode: "Past & Future Tense"
2011 American Dad! Senator Buckingham (voice) Episode: "School Lies"
2011 Reel Love Wade Whitman Television film
2012 Archer Himself (voice) Episode: "The Man from Jupiter"
22. Video games :-
Year Title Voice role
2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Avery Carrington
2011 Saints Row: The Third Himself (The Mayor)
23. Discography :
Ask Me What I Am (1973) [79]
Singles
Year Title Chart positions Album Songwriter
US Country US CAN Country
1980 "Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial" 51 88[80] 33 Smokey and the Bandit II Soundtrack Richard Levinson
24. Accolades :-
Awards and nominations for acting
Year Association Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1971 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Dan August Nominated
1975 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy The Longest Yard Nominated
1980 Starting Over Nominated
1991 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Evening Shade Nominated
Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Nominated
1992 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Won
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Won
1993 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Nominated
1997 Boston Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor Boogie Nights 2nd place
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Won
New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor Won
Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor Won
1998 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Won
British Academy Film Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Best Cast Won
National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor Won
Satellite Awards Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Won
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated
25. Other honors :-
1978: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6838 Hollywood Blvd.
2000: Children at Heart Award
2003: Atlanta IMAGE Film and Video Award
26. Works :-
Reynolds, Burt. (1994) My Life. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6130-4
Reynolds, Burt. (2015) But Enough About Me: A Memoir. G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-3991-7354-4
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