Burt Reynolds — a Hollywood legend who starred in Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance and, later, Boogie Nights — has died at age 82.
The screen icon passed away on Thursday (September 6) at the Jupiter Medical Center in Florida, his spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. Multiple outlets have reported that Reynolds had been hospitalized for a heart attack prior to his death.
Digital Spy has reached out to his representatives for more information.
Reynolds had just recently been cast in a featured role in Quentin Tarantino's thriller Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which dramatises the events surrounding the Manson family's murder of actress Sharon Tate in 1969.
He was to have played George Spahn, the nearly-blind ranch owner whose property was invaded by Charles Manson (Damon Herriman) and his notorious Family in the months leading up to the crime. It is not immediately clear if the role will now be recast.
At one time, Reynolds was one of Hollywood's biggest stars, and was in fact the biggest box-office attraction for five straight years beginning in the late '70s. In his heyday, he had huge successes with Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance, Hooper and The Longest Yard.
From: Digital Spy