BURT REYNOLDS

'Burt Reynolds' (born 'Burton Reynolds Jr.'^[2] on February 11, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated Emmy Award-winning American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Lewis Medlock in ''Deliverance'', Paul Crewe in the original version of ''The Longest Yard'', Bo 'Bandit' Darville in ''Smokey and the Bandit'', J.J. McClure in ''The Cannonball Run'' and Jack Horner in ''Boogie Nights''.
Burt is one of America's most recognizable film and television personalities. With more than 90 feature film and 300 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.^[3]

Contents

'Early life'

'College'

'Career'

'Southern filmmaking'

'Personal life'

'Sports team owner'

'Honorary recognitions'

'Awards and achievements'

'Filmography'

'TV work'

'Talk/variety show appearances'

'Notes'

'References'

'External links'

'Early life'

Burt was born to Burton Reynolds, of half-Cherokee Indian^[4] descent, and Fern, who was of Italian^[5] descent.
When Burt Junior was a child, the family moved to Florida. Burt 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.^[6]
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.^[7]
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.^[8]
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.^[9]
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.^[10]

'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 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.^[11]
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.^[12]

'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 working 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.^[13]
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.^[14]
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 working as a dockworker that Reynolds was offered $150 to jump through a glass window on a live television show.^[15]
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 naked in the April (Vol. 172, No. 4) issue of ''Cosmopolitan Magazine''.
In 1973, he released the album ''Ask Me What I Am''. He would also sing in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
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''!"
He had his hand at producing a television show with friend Bert Convy in 1987, ''Win, Lose or Draw''. He even appeared as a celebrity gameplayer in a few episodes of the show.
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). 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 2002, he lent his voice to the character Avery Carrington in the controversial video game ''.
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. In 2007 at the World Stuntman Awards he was awarded the Taurus Lifetime Achievement Award. While presenting him with the award Arnold Schwarzenegger referred to him as the greatest of the great.

'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.^[16]

'Personal life'

At various points in his life, Reynolds was romantically involved with Dinah Shore, Sally Field, and Chris Evert.^[17] His relationship with Shore garnered particular attention given the fact she was 20 years his senior. 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.^[18]
His autobiography, titled ''My Life'', was published in 1994 with much writing help from his close personal friend, Al Glasgow.

'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.

'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

'Awards and achievements'

★ 1978 Star for (Motion Pictures) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame At 6838 Hollywood Blvd.^[19]

★ 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^[20]

★ 2003 Atlanta IMAGE Film and Video Award^[21]

★ 2007 Taurus Lifetime Achievement Award

★ '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)

★ People's Choice Awards, USA
#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)

★ Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
#1997 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)

★ New York Film Critics Circle Awards
#1997 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)

★ Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
#1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)

★ Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
#1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)

★ Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
#1998 Best Supporting Actor for: Boogie Nights (1997)

★ Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
#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

★ Satellite Awards
#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

★ Golden Boot Awards
#1990 Golden Boot

★ National Association of Theater Owners
#1980 Male Star of the Year Award
#1978 Male Star of the Year Award

★ Razzie Awards
#1997 Worst Screen Couple for: Striptease (1996)
#1994 Award Worst Actor for: Cop and ½ (1993)

'Filmography'

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1961	''Angel Baby''	Hoke Adams	First Film
	''Armored Command''	Skee
1965	''Operation C.I.A.''	Mark Andrews
1966	''Navajo Joe''	Joe
1969	''100 Rifles''	Yaqui Joe Herrera
	''Sam Whiskey''	Sam Whiskey
	''Impasse''	Pat Morrison
	''Shark!''	Caine
1970	''Skullduggery''	Douglas Temple
1972	''Deliverance''	Lewis Medlock
	''Fuzz''	Det. Steve Carella
	''Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)''	Sperm Switchboard Chief	cameo role
1973	''Shamus''	Shamus McCoy
	''White Lightning''	Gator McKlusky
	''The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing''	Jay Grobart
1974	''The Longest Yard''	Paul Crewe
1975	''At Long Last Love''	Michael Oliver Pritchard III
	''W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings''	W.W. Bright
	''Lucky Lady''	Walker Ellis	song performer
	''Hustle''	Lieutenant Phil Gaines	also executive producer
1976	''Silent Movie''	himself	cameo role
	''Gator''	Gator McKlusky	also director
	''Nickelodeon''	Buck Greenway
1977	''Smokey and the Bandit''	Bo 'Bandit' Darville
	''Semi-Tough''	Billy Clyde Puckett
1978	''The End''	Wendell Sonny Lawson	also director
	''Hooper''	Sonny Hooper	also producer
1979	''Starting Over''	Phil Potter
1980	''Rough Cut''	Jack Rhodes
	''Smokey and the Bandit II''	Bo 'Bandit' Darville
1981	''The Cannonball Run''	J.J. McClure
	''Paternity''	Buddy Evans
	''Sharky's Machine''	Sgt. Tom Sharky	also director
1982	''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas''	Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd	song performer
	''Best Friends''	Richard Babson
1983	''Stroker Ace''	Stroker Ace
	''Smokey and the Bandit Part 3''	The Real Bandit	cameo role
	''The Man Who Loved Women''	David Fowler
1984	''Cannonball Run II''	J.J. McClure
	''City Heat''	Mike Murphy
1985	''Southern Voices, American Dreams''	himself	documentary
	''Stick''	Ernest 'Stick' Stickley	also director
1986	''Uphill All the Way''	himself	cameo role
	''Sherman's March''	himself	documentary
	''Heat''	Mex
1987	''Malone''	Richard Malone
1988	''Rent-A-Cop''	Tony Church
	''Switching Channels''	John L. Sullivan IV
1989	''Physical Evidence''	Joe Paris
	''Breaking In''	Ernie Mullins
	''All Dogs Go to Heaven''	Charlie B. Barkin	voice and song performer
1990	''Modern Love''	Colonel Frank Parker
1992	''The Player''	himself	cameo role
1993	''Cop and a 1/2''	Nick McKenna
1994	''A Century of Cinema''	himself	documentary
1995	''The Maddening''	Roy Scudder
1996	''Frankenstein and Me''	Les Williams
	''Citizen Ruth''	Blaine Gibbons
	''Striptease''	Congressman David Dilbeck
	''Mad Dog Time''	'Wacky' Jacky Jackson
1997	''Meet Wally Sparks''	Lenny Spencer
	''Bean''	General Newton
	''Boogie Nights''	Jack Horner
1998	''Crazy Six''	Dakota
1999	''Waterproof''	Eli Zeal
	''The Hunter's Moon''	Clayton Samuels
	''Pups''	Daniel Bender
	''Big City Blues''	Connor	co-producer
	''Stringer''	Wolko
	''Mystery, Alaska''	Judge Walter Burns
2000	''The Crew''	Joey 'Bats' Pistella
	''The Last Producer''	Sonny Wexler	also director
2001	''Driven''	Carl Henry
	''Tempted''	Charlie LeBlanc
	''Hotel''	Flamenco Manager
	''The Hollywood Sign''	Kage Mulligan
	''Auf Herz und Nieren''	Banko	German film
2002	''Snapshots''	Larry Goldberg
	''Time of the Wolf''	Archie McGregor
2003	''The Librarians''	Irish
	''4th and Life''	Narrator	documentary
	''	himself	voice
2004	''Without a Paddle''	Del Knox
2005	''The Longest Yard''	Coach Nate Scarborough
	''The Dukes of Hazzard''	Jefferson Davis 'Boss' Hogg
	''Legend of Frosty the Snowman''	Narrator	voice
2006	''Cloud 9''	Billy Cole
	''End Game''	General Montgomery
	''Forget About It''	Sam LeFleur
	''Grilled''	Goldbluth
	''Broken Bridges''	Jake Delton
2007	''Deal''	?
	''Randy and the Mob''	Elmore Culpepper
	''Delgo''	Delgo's Father	voice
	''	King Konreid
Announced	''Wait For Me''[22]
	''Small Town Saturday Night ''[23]	Charlie
	''Old Soldiers''[24]
	''Instant Karma ''[25]		voice

'TV work'

#''Riverboat'' (cast member from 1959-1960)
#''Gunsmoke'' (cast member from 1962-1965)
#''Branded'' (1966)
#''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)
#'' (1989) (pilot for ''B.L. Stryker'')
#''B.L. Stryker'' (1989-1990)
#'' (1990)
#'' (1990) (also director)
#''Evening Shade'' (1990-1994)
#''The Man from Left Field'' (1993) (also director and producer)
#''Raven'' (1997)
#'' (1998)
#'' (1998)
#''Hard Time'' (1998) (also director)
#'' (1999)
#'' (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.

'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''^[26] (2005)
#''The Maury Povich Show'' (2004)
#''The Daily Show'' (2004)
#''Dinner for Five'' (2 episodes, 2004)
#'' (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''^[27] (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)
#''(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)
#'' (1973)
#'' (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)

'Notes'

1. Many sources list Waycross, Georgia as Reynold's birthplace ( Birthplace , Birthplace and Birthplace ), for example, while other sources show that he was born in Lansing, Michigan (Burt Reynold's Official Website), (NNBD and The ''Palm Beach Post'', June 28, 2000). Reynolds' autobiography (''My Life'') does not name his birthplace, although it does cover his childhood in Lansing, and fails to mention Waycross at all. For more discussion on Burt Reynolds' birthplace, see ()
2. Birthname
3. Birthplace
4. Grandmother-Cherokee
5. Mother-Italian
6. Reynolds. Pp. 17-8
7. Reynolds. Pp.18-9
8. Reynolds. Pp. 17, 22-4
9. Reynolds. Pp. 17, 27-8
10. Reynolds. Pp. 17, 33-7, 41-4
11. Reynolds. Pp. 49-56
12. Reynolds. Pp. 57-9
13. Reynolds. Pp. 59-63.
14. Reynolds. Pp. 63-5.
15. Reynolds. Pp. 65-7.
16. Southern Filmmaking
17. Chris
18. Kate
19. Walk of Fame
20. 2000 Children at Heart
21. 2003 Atlanta Image Award
22. Wait for Me
23. Small Town Saturday Night
24. Old Soldiers
25. Instant Karma
26. Transcript
27. Transcript

'References'

★ Reynolds, Burt. 1994. ''My Life''. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6130-4

★ The Biography Channel

★ TIME Magazine (article from Monday, Aug.21, 1972)

★ Chicago Sun-Times (article from Feb 7, 2007)

★ Yahoo Movies

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★ AOL Movies

★ Yahoo TV

★ Filmbug

★ Georgia Monthly

★ Answer.com

★ Starpulse

★ Celebrity Wonder

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★ CNN

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★ State Handbook & Guide Resources

★ Turner Classic Movies

★ AMC tv

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★ Hollywood.com

★ Allmovie.com

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★ FYE

★ Fandango

★ Netflix

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★ eBay

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★ Sky Movies

★ Tribute Entertainment Group

★ eNewsReference

★ Yahoo Shopping

★ Matchflick

★ website from Norway

★ Trivia Tribute

★ LAMP Travel Series

★ Infoplease.com

★ Palm Beach InterContinental Hotels Group

★ New Georgia Encyclopedia

★ Yuddy.com

★ TopSynergy.com

★ The Ledger

★ Platinum Celebs

★ The Films

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★ Astrotheme

★ Vegas Attractions

★ Teleboy

★ Actors of Hollywood

★ Castlerock Cinema Zone

★ Filmweb

★ slcoolj.de

★ monsite.wanadoo.fr

★ interstar-astroservice.com

★ Libase

★ Scifi Universe

★ Movie Meter

★ WGOW

'External links'

★ Reynolds' official website

★ Watch Burt Reynolds movie, Shark!

★ Burt Reynolds & Friends Museum

★ Dutch-Burt: Unofficial Dutch Burt Reynolds Site