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Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds was a celebrated American actor known for his charismatic performances in film and television.

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Burt Reynolds is best known for Famous American actor known for iconic roles in 'Deliverance' and 'Smokey and the Bandit'. On Dead or Alive, Burt Reynolds is listed in the Screen Icons category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Burt Reynolds is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Famous American actor known for iconic roles in 'Deliverance' and 'Smokey and the Bandit'.
Listed under: Screen Icons

About Burt Reynolds

Following leading roles in the films Navajo Joe (1966), and 100 Rifles (1969), his breakthrough performance was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972). Reynolds played leading roles in films such as White Lightning (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) (which started a seven-year box-office reign), 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), Smokey and the Bandit III (1983), and Cannonball Run II (1984), several of which he directed. He was nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Reynolds was voted the world's number-one most bankable movie star from 1978 to 1982 in the annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, a five-year record he shared with Bing Crosby, Clint Eastwood, and Tom Hanks, until Tom Cruise surpassed them all in 2001. After a number of box-office failures, Reynolds returned to television.

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