RIP Burt Reynolds

[mapuc]

He was a great actor and some of his films are classic today.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/burt-reynolds-died-dead-smokey-and-the-bandit-1202930270/

Markus

[Mr Quatro]

Yes, RIP I thought he was a cool dude :up:

I always wanted a beard like Burt had :yep:

[Commander Wallace]

I saw a number of movies he acted in and for the most part, liked them. Burt added the fun factor in movies he acted in with Dom Deluise. I especially liked " Smokey and the Bandit 1 and 2. " Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed also played great parts in the film along with Sally field. Jerry Reed, an accomplished Country music muscian and guitar player provided comic relief along with contributing songs for the movie.




Jackie Gleason as Buford T. Justice in Smokey and the Bandit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3c64j2DPE





Jerry Reed's " East Bound and down "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAhFtSc70BA


Rest in Peace.

[Reece]

Yes he was one of my favorite actors in my young days, loved his pranks and humor, Sally Field will be upset!!:wah:
R.I.P. Mate!

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/06/entertainment/celebrities-react-burt-reynolds-death/index.html

[Sailor Steve]

One of my all-time favorites was Sam Whiskey, from 1969. It also starred a couple other favorites of mine, Clint Walker and Ossie Davis. Oh, and Angie Dickenson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064923/

[sonicninja]

A true womanising legend i loved his movies as a kid.

[Jimbuna]

I'm surprised he never won an Academy Award.

RIP Burt

[Rhodes]

R.I.P.!

[mako88sb]

One of my all-time favorites was Sam Whiskey, from 1969. It also starred a couple other favorites of mine, Clint Walker and Ossie Davis. Oh, and Angie Dickenson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064923/

Sad to hear another favorite passes away. I never heard of Sam Whiskey. I'll have to see about getting it. While checking it out I was saddened again to see Clint Walker passed away back in May/2018. My goodness. R.I.P. to both of them.

[Sailor Steve]

Now it's my turn to be shocked. I had no idea Clint Walker was still alive, let alone that he died this year. I also didn't remember that Cheyenne ran for eight years. I remember seeing him on a talk show back in the day, talking about his skiing accident. Someone had given him a get-well card with a cartoon of him with a ski pole wrapped around his neck. He told the host the truth of the matter, which was that the ski pole stabbed him in the heart , but he somehow survived.

I'm sorry he's gone too.

[Mr Quatro]

Burt was also broke when he died living in his mansion in Florida that he sold three years ago for 3.3 million dollars. The new owner let Burt live there till the day he died. :yep:

[AVGWarhawk]

I watched Smokey and the Bandit 14 times when it was first out in theaters. Like Burt in Deliverance as well. RIP.

[Bleiente]

Alas - as children we liked to see Burt`y in his compressor-breathed TransAm, what fun in front of the TV box in the old GDR. :up:

[Eichhörnchen]

They didn't mind you watching that in the old GDR?

[Bleiente]

Why should I mind - it has shown me another world.
And as early 20s I am then after the German unification with powerful cars on the old Nazi highway with max. 290 km / h flown.
What an adventure - in the end they were all afraid of what the train looked like through a straw. :haha:

[Eichhörnchen]

No, I meant the authorities.... they did not mind?

I love that last image in your description too: "In the end...." I don't know quite what it means but it is powerfully poetic, Bleiente!

[Bleiente]

I can not give you a proper answer.
But surely - the resistance was deeply rooted.

Still, much was better if it had not been for the idiots of Erich Mielke.
The foreign intelligence service HVA under Markus Wolf was at least far ahead of the CIA. :03:

[Eichhörnchen]

I had not known about Erich Mielke. This is very interesting history and I shall be reading more... thank you :up:

I see now that actor Kaspar Eichel played Mielke in the 2015 movie-documentary about his life. Also (interestingly) that he provided voice-acting for "Wolfenstein, the New Order", the popular video game

[Bleiente]

Erich Mielke was a very bad and vicious idiot.

I just wanted to confirm with my previous statement - we are all just being pushed over the slope by idiots like lemmings.

Please excuse my way of speaking...

[Eichhörnchen]

Well he's gone now... I just hope that your family did not suffer and that life is better now...

[Bleiente]

Uiii - but there was my mind of fermitierten nuts... no I think of beer, the spirit was pregnant. :()1:
:haha: