Burt Reynolds

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Biography

Stalwart handsome man Burt Reynolds started out with small roles in television shows like Gunsmoke before moving on to his own detective show, Dan…more

Born

2/11/1936, Waycross, Georgia

Birth Name

Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr.

Gender

Male
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    • When Burt first saw Boogie Nights, he hated it so much he fired his agent. However, after it received rave reviews from the critics, he was persuaded to go on a radio promotion tour by director Paul Thomas Anderson. Strangely, Anderson hogged the mic so much that about a week into the tour, Burt punched him in the face and quit the tour.
    • Frank Sinatra, a fairly engaging personality himself, was a big Burt Reynolds fan : "He is the one the ladies like to dance with and their husbands like to drink with. He is the larger-than-life actor of our times. He is gifted, talented, naughty and nice."
    • Burt's automotive "costar" in Smokey and the Bandit was a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am Limited Edition. Strangely enough, following the film's spectacular success, sales of a competing muscle-car, the Chevrolet Camaro, increased by 500%. This windfall prompted a grateful Chevrolet to promise Burt a new Camaro every year in perpetuity, a promise that lasted for five years.
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    • Burt: (on hearing that Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was the favorite film of director Alfred Hitchcock): I have had people who were very intellectual and my heroes, that have quietly said to me, "I loved Smokey and the Bandit!" And I said, "It's alright because so did 150 million other people!"' I'm thrilled that Mr. Hitchcock felt that way and I convey to his daughter that, needless to say, he was the best.
    • Burt: (on Sally Field) She's tough, she`s gritty, she's got a great sense of humor and she gets prettier every day.
    • Burt: I liked Dolly Parton from the beginning because I was raised in the South and always have had a great passion for it. I told her after an interview I did with several of the Grand Ole Opry stars that she was going to be a major star. I just didn't know which medium it would be in. She looked at me and, Dolly being Dolly, said, "When?"
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