Celebrity Biographies
burt reynolds
As American as baseball, chocolate and potatoes on Thanksgiving, Burt Reynolds has been more of a prophet in his land than in these parts. He was good at guys as tough as the Alicante nougat, some with a point of pimpy cockiness. And although they have come to accuse him of being the worst actor in the world -someone who did not know Chevy Chase- and was about to fall into oblivion, he remained active almost until the end. Quentin Tarantino himself had recruited him for his film about the movie mecca “Once upon a time in Hollywood.” The actor has died at the age of 82 due to a cardiopulmonary arrest.
Burton Leon Reynolds was born on February 11, 1936 in Lansing (Michigan) into a family of indigenous origin. His father was the town police chief. Because he stood out on the football team, the young Burt got a scholarship to the University of Florida, and ended up playing in the professional league. Unfortunately, he was in a car accident, injuring his knee, forcing Burt to leave the sport. He substituted football for the high school drama group, eventually moving to New York to look for work on the stage. For a time, he only got work as an employee in a laundry and small interventions in television series. Until his luck changed in 1957, when he was hired as the lead in the theatrical revival of the play “Mr. Roberts”.Riverboat , and later Gunsmoke , of the same genre.
Burt Reynolds got his start in movies starring in spin-offs like Navajo Joe , a spaghetti-western by the always entertaining Sergio Corbucci . But the film that gave him prestige and popularity was the harsh drama Deliverance (Defense), by John Boorman , where he was a nature lover who convinced his urbanite friends to canoe down a river, with disastrous results. Next, he played a curious little role under Woody Allen , as head of the sperm group of Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But He Never Dare to Ask).. From that moment on, they began to take him seriously as an actor and for several years his films were at the top of the box office, with titles such as Shamus , where he played a private detective, the sports comedy El rompehuesos and the tragicomedy vintage The Adventurers of Lucky Lady . After taking part in the wonderful Nickelodeon , which reviewed the beginnings of cinema, Reynolds was a hit, especially in the United States, playing the trucker Bo Darville, in The Cheeks , a fast-paced chase show. In the sentimental field, Reynolds was also a bit “cheeky”, because after divorcing the actress Judy Carne, he had a resounding romance withSally Field , his co-star in Los cheeky and soon after he married a third professional partner, Loni Anderson , very unknown in Spain, and with whom he had a son, before separating again.
Although Reynolds maintained his popularity in the early 1980s, with titles such as The Funniest House in Texas , with Dolly Parton , and Hot City , with Clint Eastwood , the actor gradually fell into oblivion due to the low quality of his films. Relegated to supporting characters in by-products like Striptease and Bean , he was rescued by director Paul Thomas Anderson , who cast him as pathetic porn director Jack Horner in Boogie Nights .. It was so convincing that it was even nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Role. But the truth is that the actor did not take full advantage of that second opportunity, and in recent times he has acted as a secondary in irregular titles, such as Mystery Alaska , Driven and the remake of Rompehuesos .