Burt Reynolds

Acting

Born 1936-02-11 Died 2018-09-06 Lansing, Michigan, USA 281 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Emmy Award 1 Florida Artists Hall of Fame 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1

Awards

Nominated for 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 nominated

1998 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Boogie Nights

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

1991 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Won Evening Shade

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

— Golden Globe Awards Won

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor 2 nominated

1989 Worst Actor Nominated Rent-a-Cop
1985 Worst Actor Nominated Cannonball Run II

Emmy Award 1 won

— Emmy Award Won

Florida Artists Hall of Fame 1 won

— Florida Artists Hall of Fame Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

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Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, director, and producer, considered a sex symbol and icon of American popular culture. Reynolds first rose to prominence when he starred in several different television series such as Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966), and Dan August (1970–1971). Although Reynolds had leading roles in such films as Navajo Joe (1966), his breakthrough role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972). Reynolds played the leading role – often a lovable rogue – in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Semi-Tough (1977), The End (1978), Hooper (1978), Starting Over (1979), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), Sharky's Machine (1981), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and Cannonball Run II (1984), several of which he directed himself. He was nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Reynolds was voted the world's number one box office star for five consecutive years (from 1978 to 1982) in the annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, a record he shares with Bing Crosby. After a number of box office failures, Reynolds returned to television, starring in the sitcom Evening Shade (1990–1994), which won him a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His performance as high-minded pornographer Jack Horner in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997) brought him renewed critical attention, earning him another Golden Globe (for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture), with nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.