Did the Noles kill Burt Reynolds?

[MJMGator]

Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Boogie Nights.

So was James Cromwell for The Babe. That’s some elite company!

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I thought he died years ago, on a riverbank.


After hearing his friend squeal like a pig.

 

[CaseyGator]

But I did it better...

 

[AlexDaGator]

It was a silly movie littered with B level actors that catered to the lowest common denominator. Why am I not surprised you viewed it as an American classic?

Burt Reynolds was a terrible actor. Horrible.

But Smokey and the Bandit was a great movie due to the out-freaking-standing performance of one Jackie Gleason. Truly the star of that movie and he gave a performance for the ages. Anybody could have played the Bandit. Only Gleason could have elevated Sheriff Buford T. Justice to an American icon. He should have won an Oscar, a Nobel, and a Pulitzer for that role.



Alex.

 

[MJMGator]

Burt Reynolds was a terrible actor. Horrible.

But Smokey and the Bandit was a great movie due to the out-freaking-standing performance of one Jackie Gleason. Truly the star of that movie and he gave a performance for the ages. Anybody could have played the Bandit. Only Gleason could have elevated Sheriff Buford T. Justice to an American icon. He should have won an Oscar, a Nobel, and a Pulitzer for that role.



Alex.

Gleason was the lone bright spot in that flick.

 

[gatordad3]

Gleason was the lone bright spot in that flick.

Buford T. Justice:
"There is no way, NO way that you came from my loins. The first thing I'm gonna do when I get home is punch your momma in the mouth."

 

[MADGator]

Burt Reynolds was a terrible actor. Horrible.

But Smokey and the Bandit was a great movie due to the out-freaking-standing performance of one Jackie Gleason. Truly the star of that movie and he gave a performance for the ages. Anybody could have played the Bandit. Only Gleason could have elevated Sheriff Buford T. Justice to an American icon. He should have won an Oscar, a Nobel, and a Pulitzer for that role.



Alex.

Amen!

The first thing I'm gonna do when I get home is punch your momma in the mouf'.

Still makes me

 

[RiverRat]

A man of many talents ...........or not.......RIP old Boy!

 

[lagator]

RIP

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

You got the name wrong. It’s Turd Furguson.

 

[BNAG8R]

His best role was as Quint Asper, the half-breed injun on Gunsmoke.

 

[cover2]

No awards that I recall, but this one wasn't too bad. Rachel Ward probably had something to do with my remembrance.

 

[TheDouglas78]

 

[Tay Bang]

But I did it better...

 

[Tay Bang]

Classic!!!

 

[PastyStoole]

I thought he was great in Deliverance. He was at his best on Carson. Funny as hell.

I would have enjoyed that movie a lot more if he'd been given Ned Beatty's part. Although, from what I understand they tricked Beatty into taking the part by sending him a script with page 145 &146 ripped out of it.

He was a terrible, terrible actor for most of his career and once he became washed up, he became one of the biggest A-holes of all time. He never got over being outed as a homosexual for sleeping with Dom Deluise, and his dickheadish behavior on the Tonight Show, in addition to his wonton and licentious sexual affair with Deluise will always be what he is remembered for.

Neil Patrick Harris: ‘A Kiss from Burt Reynolds Made Me Gay’ – Adweek

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

It is possible that the put him over the edge, but I am sure Loni Anderson started it long ago. Gotta admit that Burt was in a few very good movies though like Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance and the original Longest Yard!

Don’t forget Boogie Nights...great movie!

 

[Tay Bang]

Don’t forget Boogie Nights...great movie!

There was somebody in that movie besides Julianne Moore?

 

[rogdochar]

RIP old star.
He was fine in his TV sotcom "Evening Shades". :cool:
He was in a lot of movies.

Visiting a friend in North Carolina, I was driving in the eastern mountains. You know, enjoying that area most populated by trees. We came around a curve and, gawk, we hit a traffic jam. A stream of motor-homes was headed up a steep off-road. That minor road had a fancy archway sign declaring "Private Driveway". Those motor-homes belong to Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, and other famous friends. They bought the whole mountain & built their getaway cabins.

Another time, my NC friend took me up a gully-washed narrow clay road. Overhanging limbs were scraping us. Suddenly, we hit a clearing. It was a state camping-hunting cove. There were "cowboys" on horses all aflutter. That was a posse of bounty hunters. There was a claimed sighting of the abortion clinics bomber Eric Rudolph. FBI offered a $million $ reward and that was a rough bunch well armed heading into those wood trails. The funniest sight
was the porta-potty at that camp. Someone got news Rudolph was "right-now" in that porta-potty. That thing must have had 100 bullet-holes.

 

[Turk182]

Burt who?