Burt Reynolds Movies

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Burt Reynolds (1936-2018) was an Oscar®-nominated American actor, director and producer. According to Quigley Publishing, from 1978 to 1982 Burt Reynolds was the number one movie star working.  Reynolds’ 5 year run tied Bing Crosby (1944-1948) for the longest stay at the top spot when it comes to money making stars.  I am not sure how many young people realize just how popular Burt Reynolds was back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Pretty much everything he touched turned into box office gold back then.  This movie page comes from a request from my mother.

Burt Reynolds’ IMDb page shows 187 acting credits from 1958-2019. This page will rank Burt Reynolds movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  His television roles, cameos, shorts, and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.
Burt Reynolds in 1977's Smokey and the Bandit....easily his biggest box office hit

Burt Reynolds in 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit….easily his biggest box office hit

Burt Reynolds Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Burt Reynolds Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort by Burt Reynolds’ co-stars of his movies.
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  • Sort Burt Reynolds movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Burt Reynolds movie received.
  • Sort Burt Reynolds movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
 

Possibly Interesting Facts About Burt Reynolds

1. Burton Leon “Burt” Reynolds Jr. was born February 11th, 1936 in Waycross, Georgia. 2. Burt Reynolds path to stardom…Cliff Notes style.  Reynolds appeared in a college play called Outward Bound.  His performance in that play helped him win a scholarship that got him into the Hyde Park Playhouse in New York.  Here he met Joanne Woodward who helped him find an agent. While in a production of Mister Roberts he was spotted and signed to a television contract for the television show Gunsmoke for three years.  From here he did the Clint Eastwood….”go overseas and star in low budget movies”. In 1969 he had his first box office success with 1969’s 100 Rifles.  3 years later he became a superstar with his performance in 1972’s Deliverance. 3. Burt Reynolds earned a football scholarship to Florida State.  His college career ended after  suffering a knee injury.  He played halfback…which explains why he looked so comfortable in his The Longest Yard role. 4. Burt Reynolds was a Quigley Publishing Top Ten Box Office Star from 1973 through 1984That consecutive 12 year run is one of the longest streaks ever in the 80 plus years that Quigley Publishing has released their annual list. 5. Burt Reynolds has been married two times.  He was married to Judy Carne from 1963-1965.  He was married to Loni Anderson from 1988-1994.  Reynolds and Anderson have one child together…Quenton Anderson Reynolds. 6. Burt Reynolds’ Smokey and the Bandit (1977) is the 67th biggest box office hit of all time when looking at adjusted box office grosses. 7. Burt Reynolds has been nominated for one acting Oscar®….Best Supporting Actor in 1997’s Boogie Nights.  He has been nominated for three movie acting Golden Globes®….Best Actor in 1974’s The Longest Yard, Best Actor in 1979’s Starting Over and he won the Golden Globe® for Best Supporting Actor in 1997’s Boogie Nights. 8.  Roles turned down by Burt Reynolds or he was seriously considered for:  Rosemary’s Baby (John Cassevetes part) Soapdish (Kevin Kline part), Terms of Endearment (Jack Nicholson part), Die Hard (Bruce Willis part), Star Wars (Harrison Ford part), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Jack Nicholson part) and Taxi Driver (Robert DeNiro part).  On the flip side of this….Reynolds got his star making role in Deliverance only after Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Marlon Brando. 9.  Burt Reynolds the singer?  Yep.  He hit number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1980 with the song “Let’s Do Something Cheap and Superficial” from Smokey and the Bandit II.
10. Check out Burt Reynolds career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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    1. Hey Dan. Thanks for the information on Alfie West and his 10 movies with Burt Reynolds. 10 out of 16 is a pretty high percentage. Good stuff as always.

  1. Does this website have a page where I can send a message? I am having a hard time finding it but, I would like to send you an Email. You are clearly very knowledgeable about this topic. It is about time that we spoke directly. I would really love to talk to you about some of the points you’ve discussed here. I really do wish more people would write more content like this one because almost all of the articles online are complete garbage. Metrics do matter a lot but can not substitute for human judgment.

  2. TCM has published its TCM Remembers Burt Reynolds tribute movie marathon:

    SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26TH:

    8pmEST/5pmPST: Smokey and the Bandit
    10pm/7pm: Deliverance
    12am/9pm: The Longest Yard
    2:15am/11:15pm: Hooper
    4:15am/1:15am: Smokey and the Bandit II
    6am/3am: Best Friends

    I hope all these films are available in Canada as well as USA. TCM does not always have the rights to air all of the same films in Canada. I have not seen Deliverance, Hooper, or Best Friends before. Although I look forward to all of the others, I am not sure whether I will be able to watch Deliverance or not. I have avoided it so on purpose because it looks frightening. I will have to think about it.

    1. Hey Flora….thanks for posting the schedule of Burt’s upcoming movies on TCM. I just watched Hooper the other night….as well as Burt’s Breaking In….enjoyed both of them. I hope they are shown in Canada as well. Deliverance is a pretty brutal movie….but I imagine that TCM can clean it up pretty well. Hooper is a fun movie….a nice behind the scenes look at stuntman and movies. Adam West plays the movie star…and Burt his stuntman. Robert Klein plays the director who is based on Peter Bogdanovich. Hope you get to see the movies.

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