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 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
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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 1984. That 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.
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Watching Evening Shade with my mom, is a memory I will cherish for the rest of my life. His passing has me thinking about her. Thoughts and prayers to Burt’s family.
Hey Top Billed…our Burt page has been a Top 25 page for years….we have 5,000 pages. I blame the power of Burt for this…lol. My mom is devasted…she has been a huge Burt fan ….plus they were born in the same year.
Hey Top Billed….been working non-stop on the site since 2011…..actually just did a quick check….Burt is the 12th most popular page on our website….and when you look at single stars he is 6th.
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Hey Helakoski….sad news indeed. Even sadder, Reynolds was still a couple of weeks away from filming his scenes in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood……so that Tarantino role will not happen. Rest in peace Burt Reynolds.
Burt Reynolds was a throwback to the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was a mixture of Clark Gable and Errol Flynn. His risque humor and joy for life was contagious on film and in real life. He lived a full life, lived his way, and enlightened the life of millions in his prime.
May you rest in peace, Mr. Reynolds!
Hey Frank…..I like the comparison to Gable and Flynn. I recently watched his Last Movie Star movie….a fitting movie to end his career. Though I was hoping he had a few more movies in him. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on him. RIP.
Hey hownos. I agree it was bad….but it was his 6th biggest hit of his most stellar box office career. Falls into the category of “Bad Blockbuster”…the above rankings were based on overall movie stats….if you rank his movies by reviews from audiences and critics..The Longest Yard is ranked 31st of 67 movies.
Watching Evening Shade with my mom, is a memory I will cherish for the rest of my life. His passing has me thinking about her. Thoughts and prayers to Burt’s family.
Nice tribute to Burt Reynolds.
Hey Top Billed…our Burt page has been a Top 25 page for years….we have 5,000 pages. I blame the power of Burt for this…lol. My mom is devasted…she has been a huge Burt fan ….plus they were born in the same year.
Hey Top Billed….been working non-stop on the site since 2011…..actually just did a quick check….Burt is the 12th most popular page on our website….and when you look at single stars he is 6th.
Our Top 15 pages.
1. Marvel vs DC
2. Pixar vs Dreamworks
3. All-Time Ticket Selling Movies
4. John Wayne
5. Black Hawk Down
6. Elvis Presley
7. Abbott and Costello
8. Bruce Willis
9. Marilyn Monroe
10. Bette Davis
11. Spielberg vs Cameron
12. Burt Reynolds
13. 1939 Movies
14. 1946 Movies
15. Jerry Lewis
Sad news. Last I heard he was filming the new Tarantino movie and now he is gone. Rip.
Hey Helakoski….sad news indeed. Even sadder, Reynolds was still a couple of weeks away from filming his scenes in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood……so that Tarantino role will not happen. Rest in peace Burt Reynolds.
Burt Reynolds was a throwback to the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was a mixture of Clark Gable and Errol Flynn. His risque humor and joy for life was contagious on film and in real life. He lived a full life, lived his way, and enlightened the life of millions in his prime.
May you rest in peace, Mr. Reynolds!
Hey Frank…..I like the comparison to Gable and Flynn. I recently watched his Last Movie Star movie….a fitting movie to end his career. Though I was hoping he had a few more movies in him. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on him. RIP.
The 2005 version of The Longest Yard was bad. The 1974 is one of the better sports movie ever made.
Hey hownos. I agree it was bad….but it was his 6th biggest hit of his most stellar box office career. Falls into the category of “Bad Blockbuster”…the above rankings were based on overall movie stats….if you rank his movies by reviews from audiences and critics..The Longest Yard is ranked 31st of 67 movies.