By the 1990s, Reynolds was reduced to being a casting director’s last resort. When Striptease producer Mike Lobell was searching for a distinguished veteran to play Lane Dilbeck, the powerful and ...

Burt Reynolds was an American actor. He rose to fame on Gunsmoke (1962-1965). Reynolds went on to star in the films Deliverance (1972), The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and ...

getting to spend two days with Burt Reynolds on this film,” Pitt said. The iconic actor was “the guy” Pitt looked up to when he was growing up in the Ozarks and watching Smokey and the Bandit.