Up for auction “Sharky's Machine” Burt Reynolds Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo. 

 ES-9400E

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11,

1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, considered a sex symbol and icon of 1970s American popular culture. Reynolds

first rose to prominence when he starred in television series such as Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966), and Dan August (1970–1971). Although Reynolds had leading

roles in such films as Navajo Joe (1966) and 100 Rifles (1969), his breakthrough role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972). Reynolds played the leading role

– often a lovable rogue – in a number of subsequent box office hits, such

as White Lightning (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

(which started a six-year box office reign), Semi-Tough (1977), The End (1978), Hooper (1978), Starting Over (1979), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), Sharky's Machine (1981), The Best Little

Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and Cannonball Run II (1984), several of which he

directed himself. He was nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Reynolds was voted the world's number one box-office star from 1978 to 1982 in

the annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll,

a record he shares with Bing Crosby. After a number of box-office

failures, Reynolds returned to television, starring in the sitcom Evening Shade (1990–1994), which won him a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His performance as high-minded

pornographer Jack Horner in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) brought him renewed critical

attention, earning him another Golden Globe (for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture), with nominations for

an Academy Award

for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award for

Best Supporting Actor.