"Burt Reynolds Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, director and producer. He first rose to prominence starring in television series such as ""Gunsmoke"" (1962–1965), ""Hawk"" (1966), and ""Dan August"" (1970–1971). His breakout film role was as Lewis Medlock in ""Deliverance"" (1972). Reynolds played the leading role in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as ""The Longest Yard"" (1974), ""Smokey and the Bandit"" (1977), ""Semi-Tough"" (1977), ""Hooper"" (1978), ""Smokey and the Bandit II"" (1980), ""The Cannonball Run"" (1981) and ""The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"" (1982). After a number of"
"of four urban men, played by Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty, who encounter danger from an unexpected quarter while whitewater rafting through the Appalachian backwoods. The film became Boorman's first true box office success, earning him several award nominations. At the beginning of the 1970s, Boorman was planning to film ""The Lord of the Rings"" and corresponded about his plans with the author, J. R. R. Tolkien. Ultimately the production proved too costly, though some elements and themes can be seen in ""Excalibur"". A wide variety of films followed. ""Zardoz"" (1974), starring Sean Connery, was a"
"in a film was in ""White Lightning"" (1973), a cult classic that also starred Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty. Bo Hopkins played Roy Boone, Gator McClusky's (played by Burt Reynolds) sidekick during much of the film. Jerry Reed played Bama McCall in the sequel to ""White Lightning"" titled ""Gator"". Jerry Reed and Bo Hopkins bore a striking resemblance to one another, hence they played brothers Joe Hawkins and Tom Hawkins in the film ""What Comes Around"". In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama ""Dynasty"" as Matthew Blaisdel. His many appearances on television included miniseries"
"In 1968 Voight took a role in director Paul Williams's ""Out of It"". In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking ""Midnight Cowboy"", a film that would make his career. Voight played Joe Buck, a naïve male hustler from Texas, adrift in New York City. He comes under the tutelage of Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty thief and con artist. The film explored late 1960s New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the film struck a"
"Best Friends (1982 film) Best Friends is a 1982 American romantic comedy film starring Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn. It is loosely based on the true story of the relationship between its writers, Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. The film is directed by Norman Jewison and is a drama as well as a romantic comedy. Richard Babson and Paula McCullen are a couple of Hollywood screenwriters who have lived and worked together for a number of years. Richard would like to get married, but Paula does not feel the need. Having just written a film script for producer Larry Weissman,"
"Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American buddy drama film. Based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, the film was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, with notable smaller roles being filled by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt, and Barnard Hughes. Set in New York City, ""Midnight Cowboy"" depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naive prostitute Joe Buck (Voight), and ailing con man ""Ratso"" Rizzo (Hoffman). The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best"
"poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his own novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip in a feral, backwoods America. Both the film and the performances of Voight and co-star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim, and were popular with audiences. Voight also appeared at the Studio Arena Theater, in Buffalo, New York in the Tennessee Williams play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" from 1973-74 as Stanley Kowalski. Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's ""The All American Boy"", then appeared in the 1974 film, ""Conrack"", directed by Martin Ritt. Based on"
"the problems Joan's Mother In Law is coming to stay, and Barbie has her Father In Law Coming from Trinidad. What will Bill and Eddie do when they realise their parents get on? Love Thy Neighbour (1973 film) Love Thy Neighbour is a 1973 British comedy film starring Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams and Nina Baden-Semper, spun off from the television series ""Love Thy Neighbour"". Eddie and Joan Booth live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds. Whilst Joan and Barbie are best friends as well as neighbours, Bill and Eddie are complete opposites in all things, including colour."
"always go wrong for the brothers, as Manny's sometimes hard, but always good intentions toward Dan goes wrong again, and a fatality once more struck his lives, reminding both how brutal and hazardous life can be. Jumpin' at the Boneyard Jumpin' at the Boneyard is a 1992 American drama film written and directed by Jeff Stanzler. The film stars Tim Roth, Alexis Arquette, Danitra Vance and Samuel L. Jackson. The film was released on September 18, 1992, by 20th Century Fox. Manny (Tim Roth) is a solitary man forced to deal with his painful past when his younger addicted brother"
"was played by Tommy Reilly. The soundtrack album was released by United Artists Records in 1969. The title music from ""Midnight Cowboy"" and some of the incidental queues were included in the documentary ""ToryBoy The Movie"" in 2011. Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American buddy drama film. Based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, the film was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, with notable smaller roles being filled by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt, and Barnard Hughes."
"Love Thy Neighbour (1973 film) Love Thy Neighbour is a 1973 British comedy film starring Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams and Nina Baden-Semper, spun off from the television series ""Love Thy Neighbour"". Eddie and Joan Booth live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds. Whilst Joan and Barbie are best friends as well as neighbours, Bill and Eddie are complete opposites in all things, including colour. Unbeknown to their husbands Joan and Barbie enter a Love Thy Neighbour competition to win a cruise, but are unsure how to get around the problem of their antagonistic husbands. To add to"
"Jumpin' at the Boneyard Jumpin' at the Boneyard is a 1992 American drama film written and directed by Jeff Stanzler. The film stars Tim Roth, Alexis Arquette, Danitra Vance and Samuel L. Jackson. The film was released on September 18, 1992, by 20th Century Fox. Manny (Tim Roth) is a solitary man forced to deal with his painful past when his younger addicted brother Dan (Alexis Arquette) storms in to steal his money, in a futile attempt to buy drugs. After an aggressive and hostile discussion, they slowly reconcile, as circumstances obliged both brothers to walk by their childhood neighborhood,"
"as a comedy."" White Lightning (1973 film) White Lightning is a 1973 American action film directed by Joseph Sargent, written by William W. Norton, and stars Burt Reynolds as the main character Robert ""Gator"" McKlusky, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, R.G. Armstrong, Diane Ladd and Laura Dern. Reynolds called the film ""the beginning of a whole series of films made in the South, about the South and for the South. No one cares if the picture was ever distributed north of the Mason-Dixon line because you could make back the cost of the negative just in Memphis alone. Anything"
"proves to be quite useless. Sally's psychotic daughter, Jessica, further complicates the relationship between Sally and the cynical, emotionally numb Joey. Heat (1972 film) Heat, also known as Andy Warhol's Heat, is a 1972 American comedy drama film written and directed by Paul Morrissey, produced by Andy Warhol, and starring Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, and Andrea Feldman. The film was conceived by Warhol as a parody of ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950). Joey Davis is an unemployed former child star who supports himself as a hustler in Los Angeles. Joey uses sex to get his landlady to reduce his rent, then seduces"
"Steve Coogan as Roderick and Jim Broadbent as G. P., the story follows three friends who live in a riverbank. After being swept away from their homes by a storm, they embark on an adventure to find their home and save it from the danger of the Fat Cats' factory. The series was filmed at Cothy Butts near Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight. At the end of filming in 1973, the animals were released into the wild at this site. The rats, hamsters and cavies died not long after release, but the Mongolian Gerbils survived for at least three"
"to be spoiled, some have to be yelled at, and you can't treat them all the same."" Filmed on Banks Lake, Lakeland, Ga. The film currently holds a Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 0%, with five critical ratings. Gator (film) Gator is a 1976 American action comedy film and a sequel to ""White Lightning"" starring Burt Reynolds in his directorial debut. ""I waited 20 years to do it and I enjoyed it more than anything I've ever done in this business,"" Reynolds said after filming. ""And I happen to think it's what I do best."" Following the events of ""White"
"Tucker. And ""Honky Tonk"" is also a 1941 black-and-white Western film starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner. In the 1958 movie ""The Defiant Ones"", Tony Curtis' character John ""Joker"" Jackson refers to himself as ""a honky"". ""Honky"" is a 1971 movie based on an interracial relationship, starring Brenda Sykes as Sheila Smith and John Neilson as Wayne ""Honky"" Devine. ""Honky Tonk"" is also a 1974 Western film starring Richard Crenna and Margot Kidder. Additionally, ""Honkytonk Man"" is a 1982 drama film set in the Great Depression. Clint Eastwood, who produced and directed the film, stars in the film with his"
"Moriarty, a warehouse worker. When she was 18 years old, her friends urged her to enter a bathing-beauty contest at a bar: Moriarty made her film debut in Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"" (1980), as Vikki LaMotta, wife of Jake (Robert De Niro). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later, Moriarty played John Belushi's destructive, sultry neighbor in ""Neighbors"", a film adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel of the same name. In 1982, she was severely injured in an automobile accident and required back surgery. In 1985, Moriarty agreed to co-star with Jack Nicholson in ""The Two"
"that violence on television was inspiring violence in real life. Networks had to curb their violence throughout the decade as a result, and ""Fuzz"" got pulled temporarily from TV movie blocks until it returned in its uncut version to cable years later. Fuzz (film) Fuzz is a 1972 American action comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla, and stars Burt Reynolds, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch, Tom Skerritt and Jack Weston. The screenplay was written by Evan Hunter, based on the 1968 novel of the same name that was part of the ""87th Precinct"" series he wrote under the name Ed"
"about one of her relatives who was a painter leading a hippie life on a barge. At fifty-six, his contribution as one of five camera operators on the landmark rock concert documentary ""Woodstock"" (1970) brought an Oscar and established his reputation as a filmmaker in the rock music industry. That achievement was followed by his cinematography on ""Johnny Cash in San Quentin"" (1969), ""Elvis on Tour"" (1972), ""Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen"" (1971), ""Soul to Soul"" (1971), ""Wattstax"" (1973), ""Let the Good Times Roll"" (1973), ""Save the Children"" (1973), ""The Grateful Dead"" (1977), Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz (1978),"
"for two films starring Sidney Poitier: ""Brother John"" which was released in 1971 and the 1972 western film ""Buck and the Preacher"", starring Poitier and Harry Belafonte. ""Leadbelly"", based on the life of the blues musician Lead Belly and written by Kinoy was released in 1976. The 1976 Kinoy-scripted television movie ""Victory at Entebbe"", made soon after the hostage-rescue operation at Entebbe Airport was nominated for four Emmys, including a nomination for Kinoy. Kinoy, along with William Blinn, won an Emmy in 1977 for their script for the second episode of the miniseries ""Roots"". Kinoy received another Emmy nomination as"
"The Longest Yard (1974 film) The Longest Yard is a 1974 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn and based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy. The film follows a former NFL player (Burt Reynolds) recruiting the group of prisoners and playing football against their guards. The film was remade three times, including for the 2001 British film ""Mean Machine"" (a shortened version of the title used for the original's UK release), starring Vinnie Jones, the 2005 film remake, ""The Longest Yard"" featured Reynolds as coach Nate Scarborough, and as the 2015"
"Heat (1972 film) Heat, also known as Andy Warhol's Heat, is a 1972 American comedy drama film written and directed by Paul Morrissey, produced by Andy Warhol, and starring Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, and Andrea Feldman. The film was conceived by Warhol as a parody of ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950). Joey Davis is an unemployed former child star who supports himself as a hustler in Los Angeles. Joey uses sex to get his landlady to reduce his rent, then seduces Sally Todd, a former Hollywood starlet. Sally tries to help Joey revive his career but her status as a mediocre ex-actress"
"that of his family back in America. Vinnie realizes at last that he has been played like a puppet all along against his well-meaning brother, who in order to protect him lays down his own life, handing Vinnie their father's shotgun with which to shoot him. The Brotherhood (1968 film) The Brotherhood is a 1968 Technicolor crime drama film, directed by Martin Ritt. It stars Kirk Douglas, Irene Papas, Alex Cord, and Luther Adler. The script was by Lewis John Carlino. Released by Paramount Pictures, the film bombed at the box office, with Paramount deciding not to produce another gangster"
"and crew: Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown had produced ""Jaws"" (1975); John G. Avildsen won an Academy Award for directing ""Rocky"" (1976); veteran comedy writer Larry Gelbart developed the hit TV series ""M*A*S*H"" (1972-1983); and John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were the stars of TV's ""Saturday Night Live"" (on which they appeared from 1975-1979) and the film ""The Blues Brothers"" (1980). The film's female leads were played by Cathy Moriarty, who made her film debut in Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"" (1980), and Kathryn Walker, who had been the girlfriend of Belushi's ""National Lampoon"" colleague Douglas Kenney (1946-1980). The production"
"demonstrates his overall failure to find either a style or a formula sturdy enough to carry the film's heavy burden of absurdities and plain bad acting."" Bluebeard (1972 film) Bluebeard is a 1972 film directed by Edward Dmytryk. It stars Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton and Sybil Danning. Set in Austria in the postwar 1920s, Bluebeard is a World War I pilot with a reputation as a ""ladykiller"" and a frightening blue tinged beard. Honoured as hero by the Austrian public, the Baron's freezer holds a terrible secret that is discovered by his current wife (Joey Heatherton). Filmportal.de noted"
"The Cowboys The Cowboys is a 1972 American western film starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Slim Pickens, Colleen Dewhurst and Bruce Dern. Robert Carradine made his film debut with fellow child actor Stephen Hudis, as cowboys. It was filmed at various locations in New Mexico, Colorado and at Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, California. Based on the novel by William Dale Jennings, the screenplay was written by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr., and Jennings, and directed by Mark Rydell. When his ranch hands abandon him to join a gold rush, aging rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to"
"on June 30, 2009. Lookin' to Get Out Lookin’ to Get Out is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and written by Al Schwartz and Jon Voight, who also stars. Voight's daughter, Angelina Jolie, then seven years old, makes her acting debut by briefly appearing as Voight's character's daughter near the end of the movie. The film also stars Ann-Margret and Burt Young. Alex Kovac, playing poker in New York City, drops $10,000 to gamblers Joey and Harry that he can't pay back. Alex persuades pal Jerry Feldman to hop on a plane to Las Vegas with"
"other innovative equipment to the industry. Needham at one time lived in Burt Reynolds' guesthouse for the better part of 12 years. In 1971, he and fellow stuntmen Glenn Wilder and Ronnie Rondell formed Stunts Unlimited. Needham had written a screenplay titled ""Smokey and the Bandit"" and his friend Reynolds offered him the chance to direct. The film was a huge hit, and the two followed it with ""Hooper"", ""The Cannonball Run"", and ""Stroker Ace"", and ""Megaforce"". Needham also directed the 1986 BMX film ""Rad"". In 1977, Gabriel Toys introduced the ""Hal Needham Western Movie Stunt Set"" complete with a"
"the 1920s, underwent extensive renovation and re-opened its doors late 2014. Lexington has been the site for several movies. Parts of at least eight motion pictures have been filmed in the area. The first was the 1938 movie, ""Brother Rat"", which starred Ronald Reagan. After the movie's release he was made an honorary VMI cadet. The second was the 1958 ""Mardi Gras"", which starred Pat Boone as a VMI cadet and the actress Christine Carère. The third was ""Sommersby (1993)"", starring Richard Gere, Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones and Jodie Foster. The Foreign Student (1994), based on a novel of"
"Brother Rat Brother Rat is a 1938 American comedy drama film about cadets at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, directed by William Keighley, and starring President Ronald Reagan, Priscilla Lane, Eddie Albert (in his film debut), Jane Wyman, and Wayne Morris. The film is an adaptation of the successful Broadway play of the same name written by two former VMI cadets, John Monks, Jr. and Fred Finklehoffe, which ran for 577 performances between December 1936 and April 1938. Albert and supporting actor William Tracy reprised their roles in the stage productions. After the film's production, Reagan married Wyman in"
"Rationing (film) Rationing is a 1944 film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Marjorie Main. The screen comedy was directed by Willis Goldbeck. Ben Barton, a grocer in Tuttleton, is trying to get gas coupons from the local rationing board. Instead he gets a lecture on thrift from Iris Tuttle, the head of the board, who has been his enemy for twenty years. Ben also get news that his adopted son Lance has joined the Army, and is marrying his high school sweetheart, Dorothy, who is the daughter of Iris. Ben warns his son about his future mother-in-law Iris. Ben speaks"
"Jinxed! (1982 film) Jinxed! (also known as Jinxed on promotional media) is a 1982 American comedy film starring Bette Midler, Rip Torn and Ken Wahl. Directed by Don Siegel, the veteran filmmaker would suffer a heart attack during the troubled production. This would be Siegel's final film. Harold Benson and his lounge-singer wife, Bonita Friml, follow a young blackjack dealer Willie Brodax, around the country. Harold has a blackjack winning jinx on Willie, and seemingly cannot lose to him. After Willie becomes suspicious, he starts following Harold and finds his trailer and starts talking to Bonita. Willie and Bonita eventually"