A Hollywood legend of the 1970s and 1980s has died.
Actor Burt Reynolds, known for his work on films like "Deliverance" and "Smokey and the Bandit", died Thursday. He was 82. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Reynolds died at Jupiter Medical Center in Florida.
Reynolds had a career that spanned six decades. Born in 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, he attended Florida State University on a football scholarship but began an acting career when football did not work out. Reynolds did theatre and bit parts on television before he made his first film, 1961's "Angie Baby". He appeared on the TV series "Gunsmoke" and "Dan August" before getting his big break in the classic 1972 John Boorman film "Deliverance".
Other film roles included "Smokey and the Bandit" and its two sequels, as well as "Stroker Ace", "The Longest Yard", the two "Cannonball Run" films, "City Heat" and "Switching Channels". His role as a producer of pornographic films in 1997's "Boogie Nights" brought him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama, and his only career Academy Award nomination.
He also had a hit on television in the early 1990s, playing a high-school football coach on the CBS sitcom "Evening Shade", winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance.
Reynolds had been linked romantically to many women, including Dinah Shore and Sally Field. He was married twice, his first wife being British actress Judy Carne from 1963 to 1965. His second was actress Loni Anderson from 1988 to 1993. He had an adopted son with Anderson.