What Happened to BURT REYNOLDS

Barton Leon Reynolds Jr. was born in Lansing Michigan on February 11, 1936 and grew up in Riviera Beach Florida, where his father was the police chief when he was a child. Young friend Reynolds, as he was known then, never received much praise from his father and would spend his life trying to win his approval. You are not a man until your father tells you that you are and I always wanted him to tell me that I was a man. man and never did. I had been searching my whole life for a father figure, even though Reynolds liked to act in high school plays.

He excelled in football playing running back at Palm Beach High School. In 1954 he accepted a full scholarship to Florida State University, where he played until he was sidelined by a knee injury. The following year he suffered a devastating car accident that effectively ended his athletic career and almost his life he really should have died it was a miracle I said God didn't get me through this I'm going to do something for myself Reynolds left FSU and enrolled at Palm Beach Junior College to study acting, he was encouraged by his drama teacher and mentor Watson B Duncan to audition for a play he was producing for his stellar performance in that play.

Reynolds won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award in 1957 and was approached by Reynolds. to audition for a Hollywood movie, but was rejected due to his uncanny resemblance to Marlon Brando Interest, beep,

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do you have against Stanislavski? That resemblance would cause him to lose a role in The Godfather, as Marlon Brando developed a hatred for Burt Reynolds and made sure that he was not cast in any of his films. He was a strange man. He didn't like me at all and I didn't try to be like him. I didn't try to act like him, but he was the best actor in the world.

He just wasn't very nice, in fact, in his desire to distinguish himself from him. by Marlon Brando Reynolds would later grow his trademark mustache in 1958 Reynolds signed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios in 1962 Reynolds, who claimed Cherokee ancestry, was cast as a Native American half-blacksmith in the popular CBS Western series Gunsmoke, The role brought him national fame. In 1963 he married British actress Judy Carne. The marriage lasted three years and ended in a turbulent divorce in the early 1970s due to his charisma and self-deprecating sense of humor. Reynolds became a regular on a talk show circuit where he was the only non-comedian guest. host of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, the gigs led him to television host and singer Dinah Shore Reynolds and Shore bonded instantly and became a couple for several years even though Shore was 20 years older than him, actually He never knew how old he was and I didn't.

I want to know, all I knew was that we had a great time together in 1972. Reynolds really put himself on the map by appearing naked in the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine, which sold more than 1.6 million copies in its first issue. Shouldn't he consider that day later that year? Reynolds landed his first featured role in the release the machines are going to fail and the system is going to fail and then

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survival we have the ability to survive and you can't wait for it to be known, he insisted on doing his own stunts even though an expert falls The boy Hira was seriously injured during filming.

I feel like it's the best movie I've ever made. I had a couple of accidents on it. I swung my tailbone. My name broke, I've already had surgery four times. They broke my ankle and you haven't seen any pain. In this way, the film was a great commercial and critical success, although his performance was highly praised. Reynolds did not receive an Oscar nomination, which he later attributed to his decision to pose nude in Cosmo. Even more painful was that his father did not recognize his outstanding performance. I thought my dad would just give me an attaboy some of us need a kick in the ass it's almost bad an attaboy you gotta have an attaboy in 1974 he relived his football days in The Longest Yard where he played a football star who goes In the prison, the film won a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy, while Reynolds was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy Film with its phenomenal success.

Reynolds also had the opportunity to direct and star in films like Gator at the end. m terrified it hurts me in 1977 Reynolds was cast as a daredevil driver in Smokey and the Bandit, where he also began an on-off romance with actress Sally Field the Lord, although critics hated the film Smokey and the Bandit was a box office success. Second only to Star Wars, Reynolds received 20% of the film's gross profits, which were estimated at $80 million. Reynolds also hoped that something would come of his relationship with Fields, with whom he felt deeply in love. He was devastated when the romance fell apart.

I would think that after a guy says he loves you and I hope we can make another movie together or something you hear in 1981, he started another hit car-driven comedy, Cannonball Run, the following year, Reynolds starred in a musical with Dolly. He started out in rodeo singing as he had released a little-known album titled Ask Me What I Am in 1973 and yet he was nervous about singing in a film for the first time. I was petrified of singing. Dolly saved my life when I sang with Dolly. She was still. telling me how good she was, she died in 1983 due to a series of inconsistent roles.

Reynolds' star had begun to fade. I confessed that I did a couple of films for money, there is a lot of money and I enjoyed every penny of the course. Throughout his career he had turned down numerous roles that could have drastically altered his path. It doesn't hurt me artistically that I haven't done James Bond. I don't think you can buy it from an American. Reynolds had rejected terms of endearment to begin with. in Stroker Ace, he and co-star Loni Anderson married in 1988, the movie-like marriage a huge flop, ending in 1993 with the two stars trading insults and hurling accusations of infidelity and abuse through the press in 1984 while filming City Heat with his old friend Clint Eastwood, a detainee, hit Reynolds in the face with a metal chair that was supposed to be a prop, the blow destroying his work.

I heard a horrible crack, you know, you try to be a soldier and you're done and all that, but unfortunately it was. with Clint was unfair to him, he also felt abandoned by his many friends who never called him to check on him, since while I couldn't chew and weighed 127 pounds, no one called, no one came, he also couldn't trust his family since so. received little sympathy from his father those were a difficult couple of years I tried to tell my dad but he wasn't interested anyway in 1990 Reynolds returned to his television roots on Evening Shade the show ended in 1994 in 1996 Reynolds was forced to file for bankruptcy according to the actor, the main source of his financial problems came from his divorce from Loni Anderson.

In fact, Reynolds, who has chewed up Hollywood, had moved to Florida, a state he loved and called home, and while he was there, he invested millions in charitable ventures and real estate. Throughout his life, I'm sorry to say this, but I really call it you don't know, you see people who don't stop to talk about anything but themselves and their career. After almost 40 years in Hollywood, Reynolds had never gotten a nomination. to the Oscar in the 1990s, despite his financial difficulties and his faded career, he continued to work in Hollywood, so it was inevitable that his return would give him that coveted Oscar nomination that was Jack and that return was captured in the film from 1997 Boogie Nights. where he played a director of pornographic films, although he hated the film and its director, he certainly appreciated his first and only Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and his Golden Globe for it, you know, if you stick with things long enough , they will return.

Stylish Like Me In 2017, Reynolds starred in his latest movie, The Last Rich Movie Star, which chronicled the life of an aging movie star who returns to the small town where he grew up one by one. It won't be long before they disappear on September 6. 2018 Burt Reynolds died of a heart attack in Jupiter, Florida, he was cremated days later. I had a wonderful life. Other guys would like to have this conference kidney. Don't know. I mean, I've been so blessed, my goodness. He has blessed me with luck and many of our great friends I don't know what a secret it is if there is a secret and I am the luckiest man facing Burt Reynolds' career that spanned five decades during which he earned the love and approval of the public. and Hollywood heavyweights, however, his greatest achievement was felt when his dying father admitted that he was proud of his son.

The remarkably open and sincere actor had the ability to tell unflattering stories about himself, although his charisma and good looks always redeemed him during an interview. I once said: He may not be the best actor in the world, but I am the best Burt Reynolds in the world, unfortunately for Hollywood and for modern audiences around the world there will never be another Burt Reynolds. Thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe. and click the bell to receive notifications of new videos.