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Excluding Smokey and the Bandit, your favorite Burt Reynolds performance? RIP

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    AnotherDawgAnotherDawg Posts: 6,761 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Some of his movies were great, some were just so-so, but he was always good either way.

    Deliverance, White Lightning, The Longest Yard, Gator, Nickelodeon, Semi-Tough, The End, Hooper, Starting Over, Cannonball Run, Sharky's Machine, Best Little **** in Texas, City Heat, Striptease, Boogie Nights. Some good TV work too.

    RIP.

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    WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @AnotherDawg said:
    Some of his movies were great, some were just so-so, but he was always good either way.

    Deliverance, White Lightning, The Longest Yard, Gator, Nickelodeon, Semi-Tough, The End, Hooper, Starting Over, Cannonball Run, Sharky's Machine, Best Little **** in Texas, City Heat, Striptease, Boogie Nights. Some good TV work too.

    RIP.

    The End has one of my all time favorite scenes. Reynolds who thought he was dying swam out into the ocean to drown himself. Dom Deluise ran to the beach and yelled that the test had been wrong and he wasn't dying after all. Burt started swimming toward the beach. He prayed for God to save him and in return he made promises to do better. The closer he got to shore the more he bargained down the price he was willing to pay God to save him.

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    orlandoorlando Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Burt’s dad is who Gleason tried to immulate in Smokey. I think he was a Sheriff down in Fla

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    WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @orlando said:
    Burt’s dad is who Gleason tried to immulate in Smokey. I think he was a Sheriff down in Fla

    He was indeed.

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    RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Deliverance . Or... The Longest Yard. Or... Cannonball Run

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    UnderDog68UnderDog68 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    1. Deliverance.
    2. The Longest Yard.
    3. Boogie Nights.
    4. Sharkey's Machine.
    5. Hooper.

    An interesting note....Burt did all his own stunts in numbers 1, 2, and 5. That's one reason his knees, hips, and back were shot to hell and he had to use canes and a wheelchair to get around in his older years.

    As a lot of you know, I live in Thomasville and work in Tallahassee. There's a rumor going around in Tally that he was watching the FSU game and began having chest pains when he got worked up over the game. No kidding.

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    UnderDog68UnderDog68 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited September 2018

    @orlando said:
    Burt’s dad is who Gleason tried to immulate in Smokey. I think he was a Sheriff down in Fla

    Actually the police chief in Riviera Beach, Fl..., but basically the same thing. Jackie Gleason as also allowed to ad lib a lot of his lines. But...the term, 'sumbi t ch' was all Reynolds' father.

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    jgf1031jgf1031 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited September 2018

    My girlfriend: "Wasn't he T u r d Furguson from SNL?"

    I love and hate her lol

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    CatfishCatfish Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    We have a goat named Burt. The only movie star my wife has a crush on.

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    georgiaboygeorgiaboy Posts: 846 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @UnderDog68 said:
    1. Deliverance.
    2. The Longest Yard.
    3. Boogie Nights.
    4. Sharkey's Machine.
    5. Hooper.

    An interesting note....Burt did all his own stunts in numbers 1, 2, and 5. That's one reason his knees, hips, and back were shot to hell and he had to use canes and a wheelchair to get around in his older years.

    As a lot of you know, I live in Thomasville and work in Tallahassee. There's a rumor going around in Tally that he was watching the FSU game and began having chest pains when he got worked up over the game. No kidding.

    Didn't he also do his own stunts in Sharkey's machine?

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    BigGAdawgBigGAdawg Posts: 575 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    @Chopper said:
    I wonder what he left Loni Anderson in his will?

    You are kidding I hope. She took him for EVERYTHING in the divorce. H_e_l_l hath no fury like a woman scorned...especially if she has a real pit bull for a lawyer.

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    BigGAdawgBigGAdawg Posts: 575 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Favorite movies are Deliverance, Hooper, and the first Smokey and the Bandit. R.I.P.

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    Dawg0924Dawg0924 Posts: 130 ✭✭✭ Junior

    Deliverance, Smokey And The Bandit, Best Little **** in Texas, Stroker Ace

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    UnderDog68UnderDog68 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @georgiaboy said:

    @UnderDog68 said:
    1. Deliverance.
    2. The Longest Yard.
    3. Boogie Nights.
    4. Sharkey's Machine.
    5. Hooper.

    An interesting note....Burt did all his own stunts in numbers 1, 2, and 5. That's one reason his knees, hips, and back were shot to hell and he had to use canes and a wheelchair to get around in his older years.

    As a lot of you know, I live in Thomasville and work in Tallahassee. There's a rumor going around in Tally that he was watching the FSU game and began having chest pains when he got worked up over the game. No kidding.

    Didn't he also do his own stunts in Sharkey's machine?

    Some, but not all.

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