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Pain Pill Addiction, Women and Bankruptcy: The Biggest Bombshells from the Burt Reynolds Documentary
During the early 1970s, Burt Reynolds was not only one of the most famous actors in the world, with a string of hit movies like Smokey and the Bandit, but he was also one of Hollywood's biggest sex symbols — one who'd posed fully nude for a centerfold in Cosmopolitan in 1972 mainly because he thought it would be a lark.
"He made being a movie star look fun," said director Adam Rifkin, who directed him in 2017's The Last Movie Star. In the documentary I Am Burt Reynolds, now airing on The CW, friends and family like Loni Anderson, and colleagues like Rifkin, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, share intimate stories of Reynolds, who died of heart failure in Jupiter, Florida in 2018.
All of them agreed on one thing: Reynolds had a hilarious, larger-than-life personality, was very, very handsome, and could charm the pants off everyone he met. Plus, he was a terrific actor, espe
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Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a wisecracking, Southern type of "good ol' boy."
Burton Leon Reynolds was born in Lansing, Michigan. He was the son of Harriette Fernette "Fern" (Miller) and Burton Milo Reynolds, who was in the army. After World War II, his family moved to Riviera Beach, Florida, where his father was chief of police, and where Burt excelled as an athlete and played with Florida State University. He became an All Star Southern Conference halfback (and was earmarked by the Baltimore Colts) before a knee injury and a car accident ended his football career. Midway through college he dropped out and headed to New York with aspirations of becoming an actor. There he worked in r
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Burt Reynolds
(1936-2018)
Who Was Burt Reynolds?
Burt Reynolds was an award-winning actor who appeared regularly on television for some time before his 1972 appearance in the spelfilm Deliverance, which became a breakthrough role. He was a leading movie star in the 1970s and 1980s, appearing in films like The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit, Starting Over and The Cannonball Run. Reynolds' 1997 role in Boogie Nights earned him an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe.
Early Life
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was born on February 11, 1936, in Lansing, Michigan. His mother was a head sjuksköterska who encouraged her son to read and his father was an army colonel who later became police ledare. Reynolds attended Florida State University on a football scholarship. After being drafted by the Baltimore Colts, he suffered a career-ending injury and turned to drama, eventually winning a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse.
TV Beginnings
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