Online Burt Reynolds dies at 82: Hollywood pays tribute to its macho man of the 1970s

<p>Burt Reynolds, the actor, chat show favourite and nude centrefold for Cosmopolitan who became the biggest star in Hollywood in the 1970s, died yesterday at the age of 82.</p> <p>His film career took off with Deliverance in 1972 and continued with a string of petrol-fuelled comic adventures such as Smokey and the Bandit in 1977 and The Cannonball Run in 1981.</p> <p>His reputation faded, however, with a decade in the commercial wilderness attributed to his frequently disastrous choice of projects, hostile relations with Hollywood executives and the press, and a lurid divorce.</p> <p/> <p>Burt Reynolds, the actor, chat show favourite and nude centrefold for Cosmopolitan who became the biggest star in Hollywood in the 1970s, died yesterday at the age of 82.</p> <p>His film career took off with Deliverance in 1972 and continued with a string of petrol-fuelled comic adventures such as Smokey and the Bandit in 1977 and The Cannonball Run in 1981.</p> <p>His reputation faded, however, with a decade in the commercial wilderness attributed to his frequently disastrous choice of projects, hostile relations with Hollywood executives and the press, and a lurid divorce.</p>

<p>Burt Reynolds, the actor, chat show favourite and nude centrefold for Cosmopolitan who became the biggest star in Hollywood in the 1970s, died yesterday at the age of 82.</p> <p>His film career took off with Deliverance in 1972 and continued with a string of petrol-fuelled comic adventures such as Smokey and the Bandit in 1977 and The Cannonball Run in 1981.</p> <p>His reputation faded, however, with a decade in the commercial wilderness attributed to his frequently disastrous choice of projects, hostile relations with Hollywood executives and the press, and a lurid divorce.</p> <p></p> <p>Burt Reynolds, the actor, chat show favourite and nude centrefold for Cosmopolitan who became the biggest star in Hollywood in the 1970s, died yesterday at the age of 82.</p> <p>His film career took off with Deliverance in 1972 and continued with a string of petrol-fuelled comic adventures such as Smokey and the Bandit in 1977 and The Cannonball Run in 1981.</p> <p>His reputation faded, however, with a decade in the commercial wilderness attributed to his frequently disastrous choice of projects, hostile relations with Hollywood executives and the press, and a lurid divorce.</p>