RIP Burt Reynolds (1 Viewer)

[lancer]

Burt Reynolds has passed away at age 82. Those of a certain age remember him as Quint Asper on Gunsmoke and Ben Frazier on Riverboat, and his many film roles such as his part in Deliverance. RIP, Burt. -- Al

 

[Go for Broke]

The Deliverance is one of my favorite shows. Character development was great. The decision and the way it was decided on what to do with the arrowed hillbilly was intense.

 

[ccdc11]

I just watched deliverance again from start to finish a few months ago for the first time in a long time.
Reynolds, Voight, Beatty, solid cast, though I have to think Ned Beatty would have liked to have another film as his first. I was shocked to learn it just barely lost out to The Godfather for best picture. Gator, Longest Yard, Smokey, Lots of childhood and teenage years spent in front of the tv with his movies.

 

[Combat]

A very underappreciated actor. So many great movies and a wide variety of roles. The Longest Yard, Deliverance, westerns, even Smokey and the Bandit. Always a hoot on Carson. It seems like an era is closing. So many of the celebs I remember as a kid from the late 60s and 70s have passed away in the last few years that it is hard to keep track.

 

[Warrior]

A very underappreciated actor. So many great movies and a wide variety of roles. The Longest Yard, Deliverance, westerns, even Smokey and the Bandit. Always a hoot on Carson. It seems like an era is closing. So many of the celebs I remember as a kid from the late 60s and 70s have passed away in the last few years that it is hard to keep track.

Agreed all around.

He was brilliant in Boogie Nights, stole every scene he was in, got screwed out of an Oscar for that role.

Loved him in The Longest Yard too.

Rip Burt, as Doug said, another childhood celebrity is now gone...…………………..

 

[lancer]

I really liked his rolls in Hooper and Sharkey's Machine. -- Al

 

[mikemiller1955]

he was a favorite to watch for me also...
lot of good movies...
some real stinkers too...
City Heat...
man........that was pretty bad...
it was tough watching him age...
he seemed to change overnight...
RIP...

 

[MikeNick]

he was a favorite to watch for me also...
lot of good movies...
some real stinkers too...
City Heat...
man........that was pretty bad...
it was tough watching him age...
he seemed to change overnight...
RIP...

The owner of London Bridge Toy Soldiers once told me that Burt Reynolds came into his shop in disguise. He collected Russian-made military miniatures.
MikeNick

 

[nysoldiers]

As a white water canoe and kayak enthusiast Deliverance was one of my all time favorite movies.
Burt was larger than life, a man's man and endowed with a great sense of humor.
His laugh was infectious. Another legend lost but his movies will live on.

 

[tdubel]

I loved him in the quirky movies. The Smokey and the Bandit movies were some of the first I remember seeing in the theater right after Star Wars! There is nothing like his banter with Jackie Gleason who was in the role of Buford T. Justice! It forever put the word "sum*****" into Websters Dictionary!

TD

 

[Combat]

I loved him in the quirky movies. The Smokey and the Bandit movies were some of the first I remember seeing in the theater right after Star Wars! There is nothing like his banter with Jackie Gleason who was in the role of Buford T. Justice! It forever put the word "sum*****" into Websters Dictionary!

TD

Gleason was hilarious in that role. Some great one liners. I could watch that over and over. It is pretty primitive humor but flat out hilarious. Like the Three Stooges or Trailer Park Boys. Classic stuff.

 

[Rutledge]

As a youngster, I did a fair amount of white water rafting and canoeing. I went down the Chattooga river more than once, where Deliverance was filmed. I recall one seasoned guide who was involved with the movie talking about how Burt loved to strike a pose in his sleeveless shirts in between shots. Lol

Of course the movie was based on a real life event in North Georgia. That was the flooding of a huge chunk of land by The Army Corps of Engineers for energy and water Mgmt purposes. It created at the time one of largest man made lakes in the world, Lake Lanier is in Gainesville Ga, a bit over an hour north of Atlanta. At least one town was swallowed whole by the flooding.

While we never emcountered anything but goodness from the locals, many believed that author Dickey hadn’t written his tale from pure imagination.