Post by Jaga on Sept 7, 2018 1:58:27 GMT -7
He was still on and off doing interview and short appearances in the TV and movies from time to time. The mixture of old cowboy and macho with charm.
www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/burt-reynolds-hollywood-action-star-with-southern-fried-machismo-dies-at-82/2018/09/06/d49f1e3e-b206-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html?utm_term=.ea04a205aca4
Burt Reynolds, whose blend of Southern-fried machismo and wiseguy playfulness launched his worldwide celebrity in the 1970s, first as a freewheeling chat-show guest, then as a nude centerfold in Cosmopolitan magazine and finally as a Hollywood action star, died Sept. 6. He was 82.
His death was confirmed in a family statement provided by his manager, Erik Kritzer. Additional details were not immediately available.
Tire-screeching fare such as “Smokey and the Bandit” (1977) and “The Cannonball Run” (1981) largely bookended Mr. Reynolds’s reign as a top box-office draw and cemented his on-screen persona as a carefree man’s man with an arm around a lady and his foot on the gas pedal.
Off-screen, the mustachioed actor developed a reputation as a hard-drinking playboy whose charm alternated with a volcanic, hair-trigger temper. He made atrocious career decisions, propelled in part by a drug addiction and dramatic financial reversals. A low point was his excruciatingly public breakup and divorce from actress Loni Anderson in the early 1990s.
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www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/burt-reynolds-hollywood-action-star-with-southern-fried-machismo-dies-at-82/2018/09/06/d49f1e3e-b206-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html?utm_term=.ea04a205aca4
Burt Reynolds, whose blend of Southern-fried machismo and wiseguy playfulness launched his worldwide celebrity in the 1970s, first as a freewheeling chat-show guest, then as a nude centerfold in Cosmopolitan magazine and finally as a Hollywood action star, died Sept. 6. He was 82.
His death was confirmed in a family statement provided by his manager, Erik Kritzer. Additional details were not immediately available.
Tire-screeching fare such as “Smokey and the Bandit” (1977) and “The Cannonball Run” (1981) largely bookended Mr. Reynolds’s reign as a top box-office draw and cemented his on-screen persona as a carefree man’s man with an arm around a lady and his foot on the gas pedal.
Off-screen, the mustachioed actor developed a reputation as a hard-drinking playboy whose charm alternated with a volcanic, hair-trigger temper. He made atrocious career decisions, propelled in part by a drug addiction and dramatic financial reversals. A low point was his excruciatingly public breakup and divorce from actress Loni Anderson in the early 1990s.
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