He interspersed the action flicks with better movies, which included two for Robert Aldrich. He was a football-playing convict in The Longest Yard and a cop seduced by Catherine Deneuve in the stylish Hustle And so he should. Silent Movie , the satiric Semi-Tough , Starting Over and Best Friends earned him kudos, as did founding a community project near one of his homes in Jupiter, Florida.
The Burt Reynolds Theater allowed him to return to the stage and attracted friends and fellow actors to work in modern classics. After the commercial failure of City Heat and his illness, Reynolds initially worked little. He refused to file for bankruptcy and accepted whatever work was offered. He took the Cary Grant role in a feeble revamp of His Girl Friday, updated from journalism to television and entitled Switching Channels In he had enjoyed a minor comeback in the amiable comedy Breaking In, but it was swamped by such failures as Rent-a-Cop , the psycho-horror film The Maddening and the Canadian-made Frankenstein and Me The dire TV spin-off Bean , in which he took fifth billing, proved popular and he followed that with a return to real form.
Boogie Nights was an ensemble piece, brilliantly directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. As a porn movie director Reynolds gave a charismatic and assured performance that gained him critical kudos and a new lease of life.
He notched up an incredible two dozen screen and television appearances over the next few years. He was among an all-star line up in the prestigious television miniseries Johnson County War For whatever reason — money or confirmation of his existence in a changed Hollywood — Reynolds worked relentlessly. His credits exceeded in quantity, if not quality, those of the previous decade.
Performing voiceovers for video games including Legend of Frosty the Snowman was a low point. Burton Milo Reynolds Jr. His father was an Army veteran who became the police chief in Riviera Beach, Florida, not too far from the Everglades. But he suffered a knee injury as a sophomore, and that was it for football and Florida State.
He met Needham on that show, and the stuntman would double for him on projects through the years. Reynolds joined Gunsmoke for its eighth season in as Quint Asper, a half-Comanche who becomes the Dodge City blacksmith. Reynolds got another shot at toplining his own ABC show, playing homicide detective Dan August in a Quinn Martin production, but the series was axed after a season.
He and Carson once engaged in a wild and improvised whipped-cream fight during a taping, and he got to show a side of him the public never knew. My public image went from a constipated actor who never took a chance to a cocky, wisecracking character. He was not above making fun of himself and his toupee. The set was modeled after his living room. In recent years, he sold properties in Florida, including his fabled acre ranch — The Allman Brothers recorded an album there in the s — and auctioned off personal belongings.
He was tough. Anyone who breaks their tailbone on a river and finishes the movie is tough. He emerged as a football star and even earned an athletic scholarship to Florida State University.
However, injuries derailed his athletic development, which opened the door for acting to become his main passion. Well, so far, so good. He is survived by his son from his second marriage, Quinton Anderson Reynolds. We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience. But advertising revenue helps support our journalism. To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker.
His mother was a head nurse who encouraged her son to read and his father was an army colonel who later became police chief. 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.
In , Reynolds received his big break after he appeared in a New York City Center revival of Mister Roberts and subsequently signed a television contract. Both handsome and charming, Reynolds increased his popularity in the early s by appearing on numerous talk shows, including Johnny Carson 's Tonight Show , on which he would become a frequent guest.
Though he had received film work in the past, Reynolds breakthrough role did not come until the drama Deliverance , co-starring Jon Voight. The film established Reynolds as both a star and a serious actor. He simultaneously became a major sex symbol when he was featured as the first nude male centerfold in Cosmopolitan magazine.
Bandit spawned and outings as well, while Reynolds's comedic car race epic The Cannonball Run , co-starring Farrah Fawcett and Roger Moore, yielded a sequel. He also co-starred with friend Dom DeLuise in a number of projects during this era, including The End , which Reynolds directed, and the Cannonball films.
His film career waning by the mids, Reynolds returned to the small screen with the popular sitcom Evening Shade , for which he won an Emmy in and a Golden Globe in
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