This person died in 2018 at age 82. His early passion was for football, and he played halfback at Florida State University. He was part Cherokee. He had an often turbulent career that spanned some 100 films and countless television appearances. He had a volatile temperament, but he himself projected an air of nonchalance and professed not to take his career too seriously. He was a self-mocking charmer with laugh-crinkled dark eyes, a distinctive mustache, and a hairy chest. He had box-office success with films like “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Cannonball Run”. Today’s dead celebrity is Burt Reynolds.

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New York Times Obituary for Burt Reynolds

“46 years of Burt Reynolds’ Glorious Mustache” in The Washington Post

Burt’s ‘Cosmopolitan’ centerfold in 1972

Clip of Burt Reynolds vs Mark Summers on ‘The Tonight Show’

“Burt Reynolds on Toupees, Trump,...” in GQ

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