Reynolds was best known as an action star, often preferring to do his own stunts, but balanced his resume with romantic, comedic and dramatic parts, too, earning his lone Oscar nomination in 1998 for Boogie Nights.
The actor played porn director Jack Horner in the Paul Thomas Anderson film, though he later famously claimed to “hate” Anderson, and said he never watched Boogie Nights all the way through.
Still, Reynolds had plenty other roles in which he could revel in — the Michigan native was the top-grossing movie star in Hollywood for each year from 1978 to 1982.
In that span, he released films like Starting Over, The Cannonball Run, Rough Cut, and a sequel to Smokey and the Bandit.
It was the original Smokey in 1977 that Reynolds is best known for; a Hal Needham action comedy flick that featured Reynolds as Bo “Bandit” Darville, a man hired to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta in 28 hours in his black Pontiac Trans-Am.