Most Recent Role: Richard Chubby on My Name Is Earl
Alias Name(s): The Bandit
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Waycross, Georgia
Birthday: 2-11-1936
Birth Name: Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr.
Alias Name(s): The Bandit
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Waycross, Georgia
Birthday: 2-11-1936
Birth Name: Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr.
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Stalwart handsome man Burt Reynolds started out with small roles in television shows like "Gunsmoke" before moving on to his own detective show, "Dan August."
He became a staple of 70s cinema, as women swooned for his blend of rugged good looks and effortless charm, with a dash of swaggering machismo offset by secret sensitivity. The rare leading man who could do both drama and comedy...
Most Recent Appearance
Two Balls, Two Strikes
Thursday 19 April 2007 on NBC
After Richard Chubby dies, Little Chubby comes to town to take over the family business. While Earl tries to cross an item off his list he learns the true meaning of sacrifice.
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Burt had dated Sally Field on and off over several years, proposing marriage many times, each time being rejected.
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Burt fought a battle against pain pill addiction in the mid 1990's when married to Loni Anderson. He was taking over 60 Percocet a day.
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Burt declared bankruptcy in 1996, after a string of failed movies, and a bitter public divorce from Loni Anderson damaged his marketability.
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Burt posed nearly nude in the 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine's centerfold.
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Burt received the 'Children At Heart Award' in June of 2000 for his efforts in benefitting and aiding the children of Cheranobyl. Their organization has rescued over 1600 children for terrible conditions that were created by fall-out in Chernobyl.
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Burt Reynolds: My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
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Burt: (about a woman mistaking him for Marlon Brando) A woman mistook me for Brando. I tried to dissuade her but she kept coming back insisting I was Brando.
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Burt: (after one of his movies didn't do well in cinema) The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
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Burt: I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
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Burt: Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
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Other Appearances
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B.L. Stryker
Buddy Lee "B.L." Stryker |
Dan August
Det. Lieutenant Dan August |
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Evening Shade
Wood Newton |
Gunsmoke
Quint |
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Hawk
Det. Lieutenant John Hawk |
Out of This World
Voice of Troy (Evie's father) |
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Gunsmoke
Quint |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Guest |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Escape to Sonoita Bill Davis |
All Dogs Go to Heaven
All Dogs Go To Heaven Charlie B. Barkin |
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Beverly Hills, 90210
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Himself |
Biography
Raquel Welch: Beyond the Fantasy. Himself |
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Branded
Now Join the Human Race Red Hand |
Coming Attractions
The Longest Yard; Cursed; The Interpreter; The Wedding Date |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Method Actor |
Amazing Stories
Guilt Trip |
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B.L. Stryker
Night Train |
B.L. Stryker
Blues For Buder |
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B.L. Stryker
Die Laughing |
Evening Shade
Cousin Readith |
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B.L. Stryker
n/a |
Evening Shade
Chip Off the Old Brick Story |
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Evening Shade
First Heroes Story |
Evening Shade
The Resurrection of Wood Newton Story |
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Freddie
Mother of All Grandfathers Carl |
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B.L. StrykerBurt Reynolds who hadn't been on network television since Dan August was last broadcast in 1971 returned to television as part of ABC's reviving of the rotating mystery movie idea. The show... more Dan August
Dan August wasn't received very well in the ratings, but shortly after Burt Reynolds' career took off, then the show's ratings went up too. Several episodes were combined into feature films and... more Evening Shade
This gentle rural sitcom, Evening Shade , starred Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-pro football star who returned to his Arkansas home town of Evening Shade to coach the high school football... more
GunsmokeDodge City, known as the Sodom and Gomorrah of the plains, is a typical frontier city of the late 1800s with typical problems ranging from rumored Indian raids to bank and stage robberies, cattle... more Hawk
HAWK was a shot-running TV show, a police story with a twist. John Hawk (played by Burt Reynolds) was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian working the night beat for the New York District Attorney's... more
Out of This WorldThis show revolved around a teenager, who was a little different from most: she was half-alien! She had the ability to stop time. Unfortunately, her father (the alien) was not around to guide her,... more
