I never heard about all the great parts he turned down. Wow.

Really enjoyed watching him with Johnny Carson,I can still hear his laugh.

RIP

I was part of the CB craze in the 70's. I'll always remember the first (and only...the others sucked a tick turd) Smokey and the Bandit.

I'm 50 years old and I still want to be a wise cracking Burt Reynolds, speeding across the South in a trans am and wearing a cool cowboy hat. Life doesn't get better than that.

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They’ll never catch The Bandit now...

Buford T. Justice has been waiting for him for 30 years, he's been chasing The Snowman for a decade (10 years and 5 days ago actually). At least now Jerry Reed will have his blocker back.

The clouds will rain Coors from this day forward.

I'll never forget his expression when he lost the Oscar for 'Boogie Nights' or his wink on the hospital bed at the end of 'Deliverance.'

RIP Burt
His movies were always entertaining and some of my favorites. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

I think Burt and Needham made movies because they wanted to have a good time

for that I will ever be grateful

those were good times and the world lost something today

For you boys thirsty in Atlanta, you'll have to go to Texarkana yourself now. RIP

My Favorite Burt movie has always been "Malone".

Do any of you guys remember that one?

Pure. 80s. Action.

RIP Bandit....

Just turned my 10 year old son onto Smokey and The Bandit. He loves that movie. We saw one of the original bandit on screen cars at the country music hall of fame in Nashville a few years back.

RIP Burt. You made us all laugh.

Ok, movie night tonight. Me and my 12 y/o daughter.

Bandit or Cannonball?

My wife prefers Smokey and the Bandit, while I like Cannonball Run better. But last night we watched Deliverance, just because I wanted something serious.

R.I.P Bandit

RIP
A great life.
I also did not know about all of those roles he turned down.

Since we were slow at the morgue last night, I watched Smokey and the Bandit, along with numerous you tube videos of him on Johnny Carson.

Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, and City were my favorite Burt Reynolds movies. I also enjoyed his short lived sitcom.. Evening Shade.

My dad's were Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Gator, White lightning, and the Longest Yard (the original)

a future discussion poll/thread.
Who had a better mustache Tom Selleck in Magnum PI or Burt Reynolds

RIP, Mr. Reynolds

One movie that comes to mind that I really enjoyed was Rough Cut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Cut_(1980_film)

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Originally posted by rangemaster:
My Favorite Burt movie has always been "Malone".

Do any of you guys remember that one?

Pure. 80s. Action.

RIP Bandit....

Shamus maybe? Malone was James Garner IIRC.

Enjoyed quite a few of his movies over the years. Somewhere in the hereafter there is a Firebird Trans Am doing donuts and zipping along at high speed. Rest well Mr. Reynolds and Godspeed.

Burt now joins Captain Choas (Dom DeLuise) and Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing (Jack Elam) in the Heavenly Hiway Cannonball Run.



As an aside during a business trip to Japan back in the day, my hosts had recently seen Cannonball Run and couldn't stop talking about it. My smartass quips when out after work earned me a nickname of Kaptain Khoas which I found hysterical.

RIP Burt. He was one of the most memorable movie actors from my days as a young-un. Some of his movies weren't that enjoyable to me, as a kid, but I was usually at least gave them a try, since he was in them. I probably ranked him second only to Sean Connery as far as coolness.

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