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Ethan Rogers Yeah, I know. And right now, Burt Reynolds is reuniting with Judith Barsi, Farrah Faucett, Anna Manahan, Charles Nelson Reilly, Dom DeLuise, Vic Tayback, Jerry Reed, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Nabors, Pat McCormick, Jackie Gleason and Frank Sinatra up in heaven.
The three main Characters of one of my favorite movie Smokey and The Bandit have all passed. It was just a movie but it represented all I loved about those years. I was 15 yrs old and wanted to be a trucker and this movie and its characters Frog, Snowman, Buford and the Bandit came at a time in my life when I needed heros to latch onto and they were it. I became a trucker and still drive trucks at 55 yrs old. Jerry Read (Snowman) is one of my favorite country singers and I still watch Smokey and The Bandit when I feel I need to go back to those magic years of the late 70's and 80's. When Truckers were truly Knights of the Roads and CB radios were alive with chatter. Those days are a distant memory and now one of my greatest hero of that time has passed. R.I.P. Bandit and now you are all reunited once again.
Ramman...warms my heart to hear a story like yours...I was lucky enough to work with Burt on a TV show called Evening Shade and most of those people jyou mention, except Jackie, came to visit or guessed starred on the show and all were so wonderful and such deep friendship with Burt. He was one of the most wonderful people I ever met in Hollywood and helped me in so many ways including giving me his old tuxedo when I invited him to my wedding. We will always miss this great guy...goodnight Burt.
My Father and Burt Reynolds were the same age. My Father was a huge fan of Burt and as a kid I was watching his films long before Smokey and The Bandit. I was 10 when S&B hit the movies and that day, I did not want to go to the show. Any kid at 10yrs old in the summer doesn't want to spend his day in a movie theater but when Burt drove that Black T/A out of the back of Snowman's trailer,,,,it was a love affair with a car brand that still exists to this day having 2 Trans Am Pace Cars and a Ram Air Formula. I also had a new Hero to look up to since Burt and my Father's personality were similar. I lost my Father in December of last year who will always be my Hero for saving my life and now I have lost another. My Father always said "laugh today, cry tomorrow so laugh all you can". Truly another sad day in our family but I have my 79 Trans Am Pace Car which was the last car my Father went for a ride in and that car is also signed by Burt Reynolds. My Father's life long love for Pontiacs is what interested me in cars and the Bandit just sealed the deal. Now I feel as if both of them ride with me all the time. Rest in Peace Dad 12/4/17 and to you Mr. Reynolds 9/6/2018.
Within 2 years we lose Batman (Adam West), Bond (Roger Moore), and now the Bandit (Burt Reynolds), they have gone to a better place, which is fitting because all 3 of these men made our lives more enjoyable! All I can ever say is Thank You for the memorizes , Rest in Peace, and God speed!!!
Jim, your post makes me feel so sad since I watched a lot of West's Batman episodes when I was a kid. I also loved the Smokey & the Bandit films (Oh, and Sally Field was pretty!) but he was also fun to watch in the Cannonball films. RIP Mr. Reynolds.
I am sorry that my post made you sad, it's just that I took it real hard because I lost my father a couple of years, and my father was a year younger then Mr. Reynolds, also they both had similar facial traits, plus they both lived a hard, but full life. So when I found out Mr. Reynolds had past away after a rough day, it just brought me back to that sinister day when I found out that my father died, which just happened to be on a Thursday!!!! P.S. I also enjoyed the 1st Cannonball Run film, which also had Roger Moore, mocking himself, not to mention when Mr. Connery left 007, Mr. Broccoli went to Adam West & Burt Reynolds to take over, which they both declined, simply because they both felt that a British Actor should play 007, for that act alone both actors rightly deserve my full respect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@creolelady182 He had so many great characteristics. He was very funny, humble, an independent thinker, did not take himself too seriously, and an underrated actor. Don't know how and why he ended up with Loni Anderson, seemed materialistic and ostentatious. He said he couldn't afford her. She went shopping one day and didn't come home until the next day. That's taking advantage. She had her own money.
Burt Reynolds was awesome. Great sense of humor, charismatic, and of course good looks. not only will he be missed but forever remembered. I read his book, and I'm going to read it again.
Rolis, kinda ironic reading your comment. I sometimes associated him with my childhood in the early 80s. It's great that Burt Reynolds appealed to audiences through several decades of movies and TV. I wished he had agreed to a last film but I admit it can't be done without the great Jackie Gleason.
Great actor. In the scene in Deliverance after he killed the man with an arrow, his justification for the killing, his reasoning with the others as to what course of action must be taken was really good. Played it very well. Great comic actor as well.
Deliverance was an amazing movie for me. I relate to it very much. I think if you have an element of survival in you, you will understand the significance of the scenes. That, and it was portrayed very real. More than some other glorified to the point of silly heroism, the character traits portrayed in this movie is what we need in our populace.Old fashioned balance.
Burt was personally responsible for bringing the Firebird Trans-Am into life, and Smokey and the Bandit is in my top-5 best movies of all time. The world lost a great man, on and off the screen, RIP Bandit.
I think the Trans Am was the last of the true muscle cars at that time. Pontiac definitely benefitted when it was chosen for this movie mostly due to that fact. Sales picked up remarkably in 1977 over previous years. Pontiac made it, Burt exercised it on the big screen, the buying public responded. These cars were fun then and still are.
Well, that news just pissed on my good day:-(. I grew up watching his movies as a kid...not just "Smokey and the Bandit", but "Gator', Sharky's Machine", the whole lot. Nobody could have done his role in "Deliverance" better than he did. Dammit, if I wake up tomorrow and Clint Eastwood has kicked the bucket....I'm taking the week off from work- it would be too much to bear:-(.
Love how at the end of the Smokey clip, cut to David Muir. For a split second before, "Anchor Man," kicks in, you see a real sincere smile. He enjoyed watching the clip as much we did 👍
This movie and the Dukes of Hazzard got me into cars alone so when they made the movie with him even though everyone hated it I still loved it even though a bunch of people hated it. R.I.P Burt Reynolds
My dad had a slightly similar car. Bet you didn't know Camaros/TAs once had round tail lights like the Corvette. It was cherry red with a black stripe in the middle. The Bandit would have enjoyed it. It was tough to tame unless you were very gentle with the gas pedal!
No one has mentioned my favorite Burt Reynolds movie.... Sharkys Machine. If you have not seen it... Please do. You won't be disappointed....... RIP Burt. Will miss you brother.
Now the bandit and Buford t justice, is reunited. And there chasing again, this time, on the beautiful highways of heaven. #RestInParadise #GodBlessUBandit #ThanksForTheMemories
Burt Reynolds was a great actor with his hilarious "macho man" style. His kind of good US film actors are so rare today in all the time more and more decline Hollywood, full of dull and poor professional skills actors and actresses, who are playing usually with bombastic but boring digital effects. I have always liked "macho Burt" since I was a little boy learning to watch TV. I liked especially "Smokey and the Bandit" when I was a kid. Greetings from Northern Europe, Finland, and "requiescat in pace".
I am so sorry about this loss. So sorry. One shining star less on this planet. Some things will never come back. I have no words about that anymore. Bye Bye, Bandit -((((
Will the public be as heartbroken over the loss of Burt Reynolds as they have been over the loss of Aretha Franklin ? ? ? Probably not, and isn't that a very telling situation in our society ? Will the Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Reverend Al Sharpton speak at his funeral ? Will former President William Jefferson Clinton be a speaker as well ?
Movies i seen him in were smokie and the bandit 1-2 mystery alaska, the longest yard, and all dogs go to heaven. That one he was the voice of charlie. He will be missed. :(
God what a tremendous and great achievement of a actor love those Smokey and the bandit masterpieces and that bad ass trans am smoking hot ass Sally field was the icing on the cake what a career for a well loved brother of an actor brother Burt take your rest now no more pain and suffering from this world just peace and quiet and prosperity right along with the other family members of the film and TV show industry's best God bless you brother Burt😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
I am so sad that Burt Reynolds passed away. I grew up watching his films.
Ethan Rogers Yeah, I know. And right now, Burt Reynolds is reuniting with Judith Barsi, Farrah Faucett, Anna Manahan, Charles Nelson Reilly, Dom DeLuise, Vic Tayback, Jerry Reed, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Nabors, Pat McCormick, Jackie Gleason and Frank Sinatra up in heaven.
The three main Characters of one of my favorite movie Smokey and The Bandit have all passed. It was just a movie but it represented all I loved about those years. I was 15 yrs old and wanted to be a trucker and this movie and its characters Frog, Snowman, Buford and the Bandit came at a time in my life when I needed heros to latch onto and they were it. I became a trucker and still drive trucks at 55 yrs old. Jerry Read (Snowman) is one of my favorite country singers and I still watch Smokey and The Bandit when I feel I need to go back to those magic years of the late 70's and 80's. When Truckers were truly Knights of the Roads and CB radios were alive with chatter. Those days are a distant memory and now one of my greatest hero of that time has passed. R.I.P. Bandit and now you are all reunited once again.
Ramman...warms my heart to hear a story like yours...I was lucky enough to work with Burt on a TV show called Evening Shade and most of those people jyou mention, except Jackie, came to visit or guessed starred on the show and all were so wonderful and such deep friendship with Burt. He was one of the most wonderful people I ever met in Hollywood and helped me in so many ways including giving me his old tuxedo when I invited him to my wedding. We will always miss this great guy...goodnight Burt.
@@jeffmeyer3195
Wth did Burt Reynolds ever do for charity? ✔
My Father and Burt Reynolds were the same age. My Father was a huge fan of Burt and as a kid I was watching his films long before Smokey and The Bandit. I was 10 when S&B hit the movies and that day, I did not want to go to the show. Any kid at 10yrs old in the summer doesn't want to spend his day in a movie theater but when Burt drove that Black T/A out of the back of Snowman's trailer,,,,it was a love affair with a car brand that still exists to this day having 2 Trans Am Pace Cars and a Ram Air Formula. I also had a new Hero to look up to since Burt and my Father's personality were similar. I lost my Father in December of last year who will always be my Hero for saving my life and now I have lost another. My Father always said "laugh today, cry tomorrow so laugh all you can". Truly another sad day in our family but I have my 79 Trans Am Pace Car which was the last car my Father went for a ride in and that car is also signed by Burt Reynolds. My Father's life long love for Pontiacs is what interested me in cars and the Bandit just sealed the deal. Now I feel as if both of them ride with me all the time. Rest in Peace Dad 12/4/17 and to you Mr. Reynolds 9/6/2018.
Within 2 years we lose Batman (Adam West), Bond (Roger Moore), and now the Bandit (Burt Reynolds), they have gone to a better place, which is fitting because all 3 of these men made our lives more enjoyable!
All I can ever say is Thank You for the memorizes , Rest in Peace, and God speed!!!
Jim, your post makes me feel so sad since I watched a lot of West's Batman episodes when I was a kid. I also loved the Smokey & the Bandit films (Oh, and Sally Field was pretty!) but he was also fun to watch in the Cannonball films. RIP Mr. Reynolds.
I am sorry that my post made you sad, it's just that I took it real hard because I lost my father a couple of years, and my father was a year younger then Mr. Reynolds, also they both had similar facial traits, plus they both lived a hard, but full life. So when I found out Mr. Reynolds had past away after a rough day, it just brought me back to that sinister day when I found out that my father died, which just happened to be on a Thursday!!!!
P.S. I also enjoyed the 1st Cannonball Run film, which also had Roger Moore, mocking himself, not to mention when Mr. Connery left 007, Mr. Broccoli went to Adam West & Burt Reynolds to take over, which they both declined, simply because they both felt that a British Actor should play 007, for that act alone both actors rightly deserve my full respect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rip the Bandit/ Burt Reynolds Thanks for the Memories
Sheriff Buford T. Justice is back in hot pursuit
trigga ville that’s a good one lol
Buford met him at the Pearly Gates screaming,
*I GOTCHEW NOW, YOU SUMBITCH!!!............JUNIOR!!!.......... PUT THE EVIDENCE IN DA CAHHHH!!!*
Dom Deluise met him at the Pearly Gates, staying out of Slapping Distance and Guarding his own Balls.
literally made me cry and laugh at the same time.
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT maybe so but snowman and fred was probably there waiting too, the chase continues
My 70's hero, sad day, great actor, God bless him, I'll miss him a lot.......
Loved his laugh! R.I.P. Burt!
Just heard minutes ago on the web had too find out for sure. Goodbye Mr. Bandit. Eastbound and down and that's a BIG 10-4. RIP.
Now he's northbound and up! God now has the best wheel man ever...
Now Buford has all the time in the world to keep up his hot pursuit...
I loved his movies,he was such a cool actor,God Bless you Burt.
He made great movies R.I.P.
Burt Reynolds will always be in my highlight reel forever so rest in peace burt Reynolds
I met Burt when he did the movie in Atlanta "Sharkeys Machine" and then "Deliverance which in my opinion is a great movie. rest In Peace
What was he like?
he was joking around on the set of Sharkeys Machine and he was not full of himself. Very approachable person and he sure was funny
@@creolelady182 He had so many great characteristics. He was very funny, humble, an independent thinker, did not take himself too seriously, and an underrated actor. Don't know how and why he ended up with Loni Anderson, seemed materialistic and ostentatious. He said he couldn't afford her. She went shopping one day and didn't come home until the next day. That's taking advantage. She had her own money.
Legends never die
Now you and the snowman can run beer again
REST IN PEACE MR.BANDIT
With Smokey hot on their trail
🚘🚛🚓
R.I.P. Burt Reynolds
But your memory lives on.
R.I.P. Burt Reynolds
One smooth guy with charm , good looking too RIP Burt...
Burt Reynolds was awesome. Great sense of humor, charismatic, and of course good looks. not only will he be missed but forever remembered. I read his book, and I'm going to read it again.
I love you Bandit!
RIP Burt Reynolds
RIP to Burt! But you ppl still misquoted him even in death. His true love was Sally Field. He said it himself.
Awww man ....RIP Burt Reynolds 😖😭😭😭
Great actor may he RIP in heaven
Rip burt reynolds
My 70's hero,, great actor, God bless him, I'll miss Burt Reynolds a lot.......
He was a great actor but also an amazing director and wonderful teacher!!! RIP BR!
Rolis, kinda ironic reading your comment. I sometimes associated him with my childhood in the early 80s. It's great that Burt Reynolds appealed to audiences through several decades of movies and TV. I wished he had agreed to a last film but I admit it can't be done without the great Jackie Gleason.
Great actor. In the scene in Deliverance after he killed the man with an arrow, his justification for the killing, his reasoning with the others as to what course of action must be taken was really good. Played it very well. Great comic actor as well.
Deliverance was an amazing movie for me. I relate to it very much. I think if you have an element of survival in you, you will understand the significance of the scenes. That, and it was portrayed very real. More than some other glorified to the point of silly heroism, the character traits portrayed in this movie is what we need in our populace.Old fashioned balance.
Burt was personally responsible for bringing the Firebird Trans-Am into life, and Smokey and the Bandit is in my top-5 best movies of all time. The world lost a great man, on and off the screen, RIP Bandit.
Yep and when I was in high school in 1977 every kid started owning 1
I think the Trans Am was the last of the true muscle cars at that time. Pontiac definitely benefitted when it was chosen for this movie mostly due to that fact. Sales picked up remarkably in 1977 over previous years. Pontiac made it, Burt exercised it on the big screen, the buying public responded. These cars were fun then and still are.
Well, that news just pissed on my good day:-(. I grew up watching his movies as a kid...not just "Smokey and the Bandit", but "Gator', Sharky's Machine", the whole lot. Nobody could have done his role in "Deliverance" better than he did. Dammit, if I wake up tomorrow and Clint Eastwood has kicked the bucket....I'm taking the week off from work- it would be too much to bear:-(.
Love how at the end of the Smokey clip, cut to David Muir. For a split second before, "Anchor Man," kicks in, you see a real sincere smile. He enjoyed watching the clip as much we did 👍
Mr. Burt Reynolds Class Act Hollywood 🌟👏💋💙💖💥💟🕊️🐦💐🌻🌺🌹🏵️🥀🍓🎇🎆🎉🏆📣📽️🎞️🎥📺💯🌺🎆🎉rest in peace handsome man
R.I.P Burt. I loved Smokey & the bandit. Can’t believe it dude. ❤️🙏😔
All I can say is rest easy and thank you for all your amazing movies. But now... my grandmother is in heaven with her man...
Going to miss him
I loved Smokey and the bandit. When my mom told me he died i was in shock rip
As a 29 year old. I only remember him from one movie role and that is that.
This movie and the Dukes of Hazzard got me into cars alone so when they made the movie with him even though everyone hated it I still loved it even though a bunch of people hated it. R.I.P Burt Reynolds
“STOP ✋ I HATE TO RUN!!!!!” 🙌🏾my childhood ❤️
So sad R.I.P 😢
aint sad, he had a great life
Burt, man. Wow.. just so hard to believe. REST WELL SIR.
RIP Burt Reynolds thanks for the laughs and the great movies too
It really does happen in 3's: McCain, Franklin, and now Reynolds.... all will be missed. Literally Legendary Americans.
Smokey And The Bandit is one of my favorite movies my all-time favourite dream car that beautiful beautiful Black Trans Am
My dad had a slightly similar car. Bet you didn't know Camaros/TAs once had round tail lights like the Corvette. It was cherry red with a black stripe in the middle. The Bandit would have enjoyed it. It was tough to tame unless you were very gentle with the gas pedal!
No one has mentioned my favorite Burt Reynolds movie.... Sharkys Machine. If you have not seen it... Please do. You won't be disappointed....... RIP Burt. Will miss you brother.
Impressive, my condolences, greetings from Mexico
des films de ma jeunesse (memories of my youth).....
cours après moi sheriff (Smokey and the bandit)
Delivrance...
i m sad this morning
SO SO VERY SAD OF HIS PASSING LOVE AND THOUGHTS TOO FAMILY AND FRIENDS ❤❤
He was handsome as f RIP sweetie. 😢
RIP thank you ! 😭
One of the last true movie stars. RIP Burt.
R.I.P...I'll always love you!!
oh...its a sad news :_(
I remember Burt Reynolds in the movie Cannonball. Many of those other guys in that film like Sammy Davis Jr. are long gone now.
If i could meet 1 actor it would have been Burt RIP
Rip I loved Burt Reynolds
Now the bandit and Buford t justice, is reunited. And there chasing again, this time, on the beautiful highways of heaven.
#RestInParadise
#GodBlessUBandit
#ThanksForTheMemories
Burt Reynolds was a great actor with his hilarious "macho man" style. His kind of good US film actors are so rare today in all the time more and more decline Hollywood, full of dull and poor professional skills actors and actresses, who are playing usually with bombastic but boring digital effects. I have always liked "macho Burt" since I was a little boy learning to watch TV. I liked especially "Smokey and the Bandit" when I was a kid. Greetings from Northern Europe, Finland, and "requiescat in pace".
I will always remember him as officer Nick McKenna. “what comes after L, BOW💪🏽”
R.I.P...Bandit
Wow😞R.I.P
Rest in peace Burt Reynolds you will always be missed and love
Dom Deluise met him at the Pearly Gates, staying out of Slapping Distance and Guarding his own Balls.
True legend nice stash bro never forgotten keep
It up in gods films you
Always have been a
Local Florida man keep it up in your heavenly accord.
Sad news. Looking forward to seeing him in once upon time in Hollywood. RIP Burt
i just heard about his death. sad. he made some great films
We will miss you Burt Reynolds.
The bandit and snowman are now running beer from Texarkana in heaven.
R I P Burt...Tears
Rest in Peace, Bandit. We will never forget you. Good bye.
Will be Miss Bert rest in peace brother
#RIPBurtReynolds #RIPTheBandit - There will never be a Bandit again.
Always a hero of mine
Noooooooo ! RIP old man.
Old fashion hollywood star
superbe acteur de son epoque il nous manquera
Damn man...
Snowman and the Bandit hauling beer together again.
R.I.P.
Bandit
Snowman
Buford T..
I am so sorry about this loss. So sorry. One shining star less on this planet. Some things will never come back. I have no words about that anymore. Bye Bye, Bandit -((((
This is a real ass guy right here.
Will the public be as heartbroken over the loss of Burt Reynolds as they have been over the loss of Aretha Franklin ? ? ? Probably not, and isn't that a very telling situation in our society ? Will the Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Reverend Al Sharpton speak at his funeral ? Will former President William Jefferson Clinton be a speaker as well ?
I certainly wouldn’t want those clowns to speak at my funeral
Good answer! Burt lost popularity after Lonnie.
The public doesn't promote rebels, individuality, toughness and fun as desirable traits. Bad for employers who seek maximum control.
Movies i seen him in were smokie and the bandit 1-2 mystery alaska, the longest yard, and all dogs go to heaven. That one he was the voice of charlie. He will be missed. :(
You should definetly check out Cannonball Run!
One of my favorite is WHITE LIGHTNING 1973 LOVE U BURT REYNOLDS
Rest In Peace Burt .
God what a tremendous and great achievement of a actor love those Smokey and the bandit masterpieces and that bad ass trans am smoking hot ass Sally field was the icing on the cake what a career for a well loved brother of an actor brother Burt take your rest now no more pain and suffering from this world just peace and quiet and prosperity right along with the other family members of the film and TV show industry's best God bless you brother Burt😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
Rest in Peace Burt
I tried real hard not to believe it yesterday :'(
Rip legend
RIP Bandit, up there now with Snowman and Sheriff Justice
Yes he was a legend!
R.i.p Burt Reynolds :-(
RIP Burt.
R.I.P. BURT REYNOLDS
R.I.P. Mr. Reynolds
Press R to pay respects
This life no body is immortal
RIP Burt Reynolds
Get ready for 20+ years of everyone saying "R.I.P. Burt Reynolds" every time someone mentions his name.
Rest easy bandit the chase is over.
RIP
R.i.p this is sad
R.I.P Burt